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Introducing a Fifth Pedagogy: Experience-Based Strategies for Facilitating Learning in Natural Environments
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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
A University-Museum Partnership for Teacher Education Field Experiences in Science.
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Zinicola, Debra; Devlin-Scherer, Roberta – Clearing House, 2001
Describes a unique field experience, an outgrowth of a partnership with Seton Hall University and The Liberty Science Center (New Jersey), that immerses K-12 teachers in innovative methods of learning and teaching science. Notes the program helps teachers gain firsthand experience, use interactive exhibits at a science center, and adopt the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs, Program Descriptions, Science Instruction
An Approach to Introducing Computing to Practicing Science and Mathematics Teachers. Technical Report 7. Technical Report Series.
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O'Loughlin, Michael J.; And Others – 1982
The Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC) at the Western Australian Institute of Technology offers two graduate courses: Graduate Diploma in Science Education and the Master of Applied Science (Science Education). Three distinct groups of students engaged in these SMEC programs can be identified based on their interests/expertise in…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries