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From a Teacher Student's View--How STEM-Actors Have Impact on Teacher Education and Teaching in STEM
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Download full textEngström, Susanne – Design and Technology Education, 2022
In this study, Swedish STEM-teacher students' experiences of STEM-actors are explored. 85 teacher students have visited each, of a total of 21 different STEM-actors (science centres, museums, maker spaces, code clubs etc.) who all offer school classes STEM-activities but also in-service teacher education. The teacher students were given the task…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Teacher Education
Direct linkAndersen, Mette Fredslund; Levinsen, Henrik; Møller, Hasse Harold; Thomsen, Anders Vestergaard – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
Many museums attempt to connect museum activities to classroom learning goals by creating "before" and "after" suggestions for the classroom teacher. Therefore, when doing out of school activities it is common to organize and plan such activities from a before, during and after perspective. The present study primarily rests on…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Partnerships in Education, Learning Activities, Blended Learning
Salmi, Hannu; Thuneberg, Helena – Learning Environments Research, 2019
The goal of this research was to explore cognitive, self-determined learning and autonomous motivational effects in the context of a mobile science exhibition (N = 256) in Finland. The pupils were sixth-graders with an average age of 12 years 6 months. Autonomy experience, as measured by the Relative Autonomy Index (RAI), had an effect on how the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Grade 6, Personal Autonomy, Student Attitudes
Salmi, Hannu; Thuneberg, Helena; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2017
Dinosaurs have been a very popular science topic since signs of their presence on earth were first discovered. They have represented so-called "edutainment" for some people. Learning from informal sources and in- an out-of-school environment can be effective and motivating. In this study, 12-year-old pupils (N = 366) visited a dinosaur…
Descriptors: Paleontology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation
Sentürk, Eray; Özdemir, Ömer Faruk – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2014
The study, carried out in Ankara, Turkey, examined the effect of Middle East Technical University's Science Centre (METU SC) on students' attitudes towards science. The sample consisted of 251 students. The age range of the students varied from 11 to 14. The attitude scale was administered before, immediately after, and one week after a visit to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teaching Centers, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction
Ballantyne, Roy; Packer, Jan – Environmental Education Research, 2009
Educators have identified four categories of "productive pedagogies" that are considered to lead to authentic student engagement and learning in the classroom. This study was designed to explore and extend these pedagogies in the context of learning in natural environments, in particular, through the programmes of Queensland…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions
