report :: National Research Council . (2009). Learning Science in Informal Environments: Places, People, and Pursuits. Washington DC: National Academies Press: Bell, P., Lewenstein, B., Shouse, A., Feder, M. A.

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Abstract

Philip Bell, Bruce Lewenstein, Andrew W. Shouse, and Michael A. Feder, Editors, Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments,
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning.

Learning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines--research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens.

Learning Science in Informal Environments is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.

National Research Council. (2009). Learning Science in Informal
Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits. Committee on Learning Science in Informal
Environments. Philip Bell, Bruce Lewenstein, Andrew W. Shouse, and Michael A. Feder,
editors. Board on Science Education, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press

Keywords	Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments,National Research Council
Publisher URL	http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12190
Author URL	http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12190
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Associated Grant	NSF #0348841

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