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Download full textLungile Philisiwe Gumede; Patricia Photo – Science Education International, 2025
This study pursues a twofold objective: first, to assess Physical Science teachers' knowledge in teaching at science centers, and second, to investigate their perceptions of their roles in facilitating teaching within these centers. Employing a qualitative case study method with interviews and observations, eight teachers voluntarily participated.…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Physical Sciences, Science Teaching Centers, Teacher Characteristics
Direct linkPlummer, Julia D.; Tanis Ozcelik, Arzu; Crowl, Michele M. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2021
Informal science educators' goals for preschool-age audiences (ages 3-5 years) shape how they design opportunities for children and families to learn science. However, little research has explored the opportunities provided by informal science educators for preschool-age children to engage in science practices. We invited 12 informal science…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Teachers, Learner Engagement, Preschool Children
Murcia, Karen; Pepper, Coral – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Science centres generally strive to increase awareness, interest, capability and participation by citizens in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This review of Scitech's professional learning (PL) strategy was designed to analyse quantitative and qualitative feedback about the professional learning activities delivered by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Science Teaching Centers, STEM Education
Rivera Maulucci, Maria S.; Brotman, Jennie S. – New Educator, 2010
This paper describes the Science in the City seminar, an innovative approach to in-service and preservice science teacher development that bridges formal and informal science learning contexts. Drawing upon the tenets of design and evaluation research, the study focuses on the teachers' presentations of evidence of student learning from trips they…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Museums, Science Teaching Centers, Science Teachers
Gupta, Preeti – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation investigates how teaching in a hands-on science center contributes to re/shaping one's teaching identity. Situated at the New York Hall of Science (NYHS) in Queens, New York, my research approach is to conduct a critical ethnography where the focus is on improving the teaching and learning of science for all involved. In…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Ethnography, Hands on Science, Museums
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
