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Title:

Free-choice science education : how we learn science outside of school / edited by John H. Falk with Elizabeth Donovan and Rosalie Woods.

Publisher:

Teachers College Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

vii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science--Study and teaching
Non-formal education.

Other Authors:

Falk, John H. (John Howard), 1948-
Donovan, Elizabeth.
Woods, Rosalie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Free-choice science learning: framing the discussion / John H. Falk -- Who produces science information for the public? / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- Achieving scientific literacy: strategies for insuring that free-choice science education complements national formal science education efforts / Rodger W. Bybee -- The use of time and space in assessing the potential of free-choice learning / Geoffrey Godbey -- The effects of early childhood TV-viewing on learning / John C. Wright ... Daniel R. Anderson [et al.] -- The acquisition and retention of scientific information by American adults / Jon D. Miller -- Investigating the role of free-choice learning on public understanding of science: the California science center L.A.S.E.R. project / John H. Falk, Pauline Brooks, and Rinoti Amin -- Supporting and documenting choice in free-choice science learning environments / Robert B. Lebeau ... [et al.] -- The first free-choice science learning conference: from issues to future directions / Jessica J. Luke ... [eta al.] -- The free-choice education sector as a sleeping giant in the public policy debate / Diane B. Frankel -- Supporting systemic school science education reform in partnership with free-choice science learning: a Texas case study / Charlie Walter and Vanessa Westbrook -- Free-choice science learning: future directions for researchers / Laura Martin -- A practitioner's view on the value of an infrastructure for free-choice science learning / Ann M. Muscat.

Series:

Ways of knowing in science and mathematics series

ISBN:

9780807740651 (alk. paper)
0807740659 (alk. paper)
9780807740644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807740640 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45583439

LCCN:

00068272

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)