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Author:   Patricia G. Patrick
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2023 ed.
Weight:   1.033kg
ISBN:  

9783031132902

ISBN 10:   3031132904
Pages:   568
Publication Date:   04 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Adult Learning.- Chapter 1. Teaching About the Holocaust Through Expeditionary Learning.- Chapter 2. Conceptualising and working With a Theory of Learning for Adults Who Need to Know.- Part 2: Aquariums, Arboretums, and Zoos.-  Chapter 3. The ARCS Model: Motivate Audiences and Facilitating Learning.- Chapter 4. Application of the Contextual Model of Learning and the Situated Identity Model in Informal STEM Learning Research.- Chapter 5. Socioscientific Issues and the Potential for Fostering Engagement in Informal Science Institutions.- Chapter 6. Sociocultural Theory: Defining Interactions at an Arboretum, Aquarium, and State Park.- Chapter 7. Merging Three Learning Theories to Understand How Learning Outside the Classroom Institutions Learn Themselves.- Part 3: Community Spaces.- Chapter 8. A Mobile Theory of Learning and Becoming in and Through Relations of Dignity: A Research Framing for Research Outside the Classroom.- Chapter 9. Complementing Informal STEM Education with Social Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 10. Playing to Become a Science Person: The Application of Play and Identity Theories in Two Out-of-School Settings.

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Dr. Patrick is an associate professor at Columbus State University and a Fulbright Scholar (2019 & 2022). Her Fulbright project focused on the ways Sumatran (Indonesia) Battra, native healers, passed native medicine, environmental, and ecological knowledge to the next generation. She is the coauthor of Zoo Talk (Springer) and Editor of Preparing Informal Science Educators (Springer). Her research focuses on the importance of communicating science to the public and the relationship between communication and science literacy. Her interest is identifying how families learn and share science knowledge.

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