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Farland-Smith, Donna, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Student-scientist-teacher interactions provide students with several advantages. They provide opportunities to interact with experts and professionals in the field, give students a chance at meeting a role model that may impact students' career choices, and increase awareness of available career options combined with an understanding of how their…
Descriptors: Scientists, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Role Models
Falk, John H., Ed. – 2001
This book describes the nature and extent of science learning in America with particular attention to the innumerable sources of science education existing outside the formal education system. Examples are provided from research and practice on how to better understand, facilitate, and communicate about free-choice science learning including…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
Bekerman, Zvi, Ed.; Burbules, Nicholas C., Ed.; Silberman-Keller, Diana, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2006
"Learning in Places" is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Inquiry, Museums, Mathematics Education
Botha, P. M. C., Ed. – 1987
This report, containing seven articles, summarizes a series of evaluation studies. The first article, "The Shell Science and Mathematics Resource Centre in 1987," provides an overview of the Centre's mode and reflections about the achievements of the Centre during the three years of its operation. The second article, "The Curriculum…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Management Development
Hin, Leo Tan Wee, Ed.; Subramaniam, R., Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2005
"E-Learning and Virtual Science Centers" addresses an aspect of Web-based education that has not attracted sufficient attention in the international research literature--that of virtual science centers, the cyberspace annex of traditional science centers. It is the first book to be published on the rapidly advancing field of science education.…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Museums, Information Dissemination, Science Education