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Fabrício de A. Pedron; John M. Galbraith; Bryant C. Scharenbroch; Marcos G. Pereira; Ademir Fontana – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Soil judging contests are important activities to explore the soil science and its relation to the natural world. They have been held for many years and proved to be very efficient for the student's engagement, field practice, and learning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the soil science societies worldwide had to adapt this activity to the virtual…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Gilmore, Troy E.; Korus, Jesse; Pennisi, Lisa; Martin, Derrel; Pekarek, Katie – Journal of Extension, 2019
We conducted a needs assessment to identify watershed science training needs for locally elected directors of Nebraska's 23 natural resources districts (NRDs). We interviewed NRD staff and surveyed NRD directors to determine training needs and identify relevant topics and preferred delivery formats. We found that training would be valuable;…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Water, Educational Needs, Administrators
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Jagger, Susan; Trifonas, Peter Pericles – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
Postcards share with others the highlights of holidays, memories of places and events, and brief stories of experiences abroad. They hold the quick jottings to a friend back home, made while in a moment of rest and reflection on a train, at the beach, in a café. They are intimate artifacts, yet they are also public. Their text is available for…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Letters (Correspondence), Higher Education, Science Education
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Pandya, Rajul, Ed.; Dibner, Kenne Ann, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2018
In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects focus on, but are not limited to, nonscientists participating in the processes of scientific research, with the intended goal of advancing and using scientific knowledge. A rich range of projects extend…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Citizen Participation, Science and Society, Science Education
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Mashood, K. K.; Singh, Vijay A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
A large scale survey reveals that the performance of the Indian preuniversity students in internationally standardized physics tests is intermediate to the American and the Chinese but reveals a disturbing bimodality. Scientific reasoning skills, however, are similar to both. The bimodality in physics tests corresponds to two different educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Secondary School Science, Science Education
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Rennie, Léonie J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
This article establishes the importance of "context", a concept that underpins the academic contributions that John Falk and Lynn Dierking have made in building the field of informal/free-choice learning in science education. I consider, in turn, the individual contributions made by each of them prior to their seminal co-authored work,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Educational Methods, Context Effect
Imad, Mays – Liberal Education, 2019
Author Mays Imad, who is a neuroscientist, writes that throughout her teaching career she has watched talented, creative, high-potential students walk away from the sciences because they feel that the STEM curriculum lacks ethical, political, and creative significance. One of her students wrote to her, "Life is hard and the world feels drab…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum
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Aubusson, Peter; Panizzon, Debra; Corrigan, Deborah – Research in Science Education, 2016
Reviews of science education consistently suggest that there is (another) crisis. They express concern with the status quo and suggest directions that science education might take. In this context, science educators need to consider the current state of play, the needs of generations in a world to come and the characteristics of future science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Delphi Technique, Vignettes
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Muller, Johan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
This paper begins from the assumption that "knowledge specialisation and differentiation" will continue to increase, and that these features of contemporary STEM knowledge will increasingly pose questions which science and engineering education must address. Two typical responses are outlined. The first response, the default position,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, STEM Education, Specialization
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Filippoupoliti, Anastasia; Koliopoulos, Dimitris – Science & Education, 2014
Although a growing number of research articles in recent years have treated the role of informal settings in science learning, the subject of the history of science in museums and its relationship to informal and non-formal education remains less well explored. The aim of this review is to assemble the studies of history of science in science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Methods, Museums, Informal Education
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Heering, Peter – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
Particularly in the second half of the 20th century, historical approaches became relevant in science education. This development can at least in part be explained with the growing awareness of the importance to address Nature of Science aspects in science education. In comparison to the international publications, some particularities can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational History, Educational Methods
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Fifield, Steve; Letts, Will – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
We take Mattias Lundin's "Inviting queer ideas into the science classroom: studying sexual education from a queer perspective" as a point of departure to explore some enduring issues related to the use of queer theories to interrogate science education and its practices. We consider the uneasy, polygamous relationship between gay…
Descriptors: Science Education, Sex Education, Sexuality, Homosexuality
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Morentin, Maite; Guisasola, Jenaro – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
In recent decades, research has shown the challenge posed to teachers by science education in informal contexts such as science museums or centres. In addition, there is consensus that in the case of pupils visiting a science centre, learning improves when the visit is connected to the classroom curriculum, so the teachers' involvement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Semi Structured Interviews
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Lundin, Mattias – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
Science education has been pointed out as fact-based and built on reliable knowledge. Nevertheless, there are areas that include other aspects. Sexual education is, according to the Swedish syllabus, such an example and it involves aspects as love, sexuality and relations. These aspects suggest a possible tension between the biological and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Homosexuality, Sex Education, Foreign Countries
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Barker, Bradley S.; Larson, Kim; Krehbiel, Michelle – Journal of Extension, 2014
Out-of-school time programs that provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational content are promising approaches to develop skills and abilities in students. These programs may potentially inspire students with engaging hands-on, minds-on activities that encourages their natural curiosity around STEM content areas.…
Descriptors: Extension Education, STEM Education, Educational Methods, Learning Activities
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