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Author Diamond, Judy

Title Amplifying Informal Science Learning Rethinking Research, Design, and Engagement
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (388 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword by Jamie Bell -- Preface by Judy Diamond and Sherman Rosenfeld -- PART I: Exhibits and Informal Science Learning -- 1. Transforming Learning Landscapes: A Radical Model for Informal Science Learning -- 2. What About AIDS? The Case of the National AIDS Exhibit Consortium and its Traveling Exhibition -- 3. Designing for Diversity -- 4. Origin of Interactive Science Centres and the Status of Science Centres in the Middle East
5. Helping Young Children Make Conceptual Connections in a Science Museum -- 6. How Planetariums Offer Diverse Opportunities to Engage a Broad Audience in STEM -- 7. Now it's Africa's Turn: The Status and Potential of Science Centres and Informal Science Education Initiatives on the 'Bright Continent' -- 8. Teachers as Designers: Learning by Exhibit Prototyping -- PART II: Engaged with Earth Stewardship -- 9. Salmon Camp: The Design of an Immersive Science Education Program for Native American Youth -- 10. Cultivating Sustainability: Youth Food Systems & STEM Learning
11. Wild Hearts: Exploring the Connection between STEM Learning and Conservation Psychology in Zoos and Aquariums -- 12. Out-of-School Science Education Institutions for Sustainability -- 13. Informal Learning through Citizen Science: Authentic, Meaningful, Impactful -- 14. From School-based Citizen Science to Transition-driven Activism with the Community -- 15. Where You Stand and Why You Stand There: Cultural Competency as a Lens for Understanding Climate Change in the Minds of Rural Pennsylvania Fairgoers -- PART III: Places and Spaces for Informal Science Learning
16. Libraries are for Science -- 17. Night Skies and Butterflies: Leisure Science Activities and STEM Interests -- 18. Chemical Escape Rooms: Bridging the Gap between Formal and Informal Science Learning -- 19. STEM Applied Learning Program: Infusing the Formal with the Informal -- 20. Equitable Access to Making through Public Libraries -- 21. The Street Code Project: Computational Literacy and the Performing Arts -- 22. Bridging Informal Science Learning with Schools: The Open Schooling Model -- 23. Benefits of Engineering Beyond the School Day: Insights from Research
24. Digitally Mediated Learning Modalities for Computational Thinking: Promises and Challenges for Informal STEAM Learning -- 25 Outdoor and Outreach: Informal Science Education Outside the Four Walls of Science Centers -- PART IV: Rethinking Informal Science Learning -- 26. Creating Awareness of the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Communication in Informal Science Settings Through an Indigenous Lens -- 27. On-Ramps to Where? -- 28. Fostering Youth STEM Identities Through Social Network Connections in Informal Science Settings -- 29. Speculative Design for STEM Learning
Notes Description based upon print version of record
30. Limiting Claims about Museums, STEM, and Social Issues
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenfeld, Sherman
ISBN 9781000901771
1000901777