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An identity‐centered approach to understanding museum learning

museums

Falk JH.
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JH Falk - Curator: The museum journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library

This paper advances the thesis that museum visitors' identities, motivations and learning are inextricably intertwined. All individuals enact multiple identities, many of which are …

Investigating public science interest and understanding: Evidence for the importance of free-choice learning

Non-school settings

Falk JH, Storksdieck M.
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JH Falk, M Storksdieck… - Public understanding of …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com

… Success in formal education settings has been defined as meeting specific minimal standards, and often informal educators have taken a … Taken together, these studies document the important role non-school sources play in sustaining lifelong interest in learning...

Learning from museums

museums

Falk JH, Dierking LD.
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JH Falk, LD Dierking - 2018 - books.google.com

… of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums … Falk’s research focuses increasingly on the self-related needs that museums meet, and these … Latter chapters of the book discuss the evolving role...

Learning science from museums

museums

Falk JH, Storksdieck M.
GSID: qwF-1Pv-CRIJ
JH Falk, M Storksdieck - História, ciências, saúde-Manguinhos, 2005 - SciELO Brasil

… Hence, learning in museums is different than learning in any other setting. The contextual model of learning provides a way to organize … complex nature of science learning from museums. This study demonstrates that learning from museums can...

Informal STEM education: Resources for outreach, engagement and broader impacts

STEM education

Falk J.
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J Bell, J Falk, R Hughes, G Hunt… - Science Education …, 2016 - drbob.pbworks.com

… CAISE’s goal is to help the STEM research community become more aware of the depth … , science communication broader impacts and informal STEM education. In response, this report … and advance the informal STEM education and the...

Maximizing the external value of museums

museums

Falk JH.
GSID: j9yr2rU83jgJ
EH Koster, JH Falk - Curator: the museum journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library

Stephen Weil argued that the only dial on the performance dashboard that ultimately matters is usefulness. The title of his book Making Museums Matter aptly sums up this premise, one …

34 Learning From Neighboring Fields: Conceptualizing Outcomes of Environmental Education Within the Framework of Free-Choice Learning Experiences

Non-school settings

Dierking LD, Falk JH.
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LD Dierking, JH Falk… - International handbook of …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com

• Lifelong, free-choice learners are not empty vessels: they come with prior knowledge and understanding—sometimes with alternative conceptions and other times knowledge …

Viewing science learning through an ecosystem lens: A story in two parts

Broadening participation informal stem education

Dierking LD, Falk JH.
GSID: DRvQcQG-6WwJ
JH Falk, LD Dierking - … landscape of formal and informal science learning …, 2018 - Springer

Studying the multidimensional, dynamic and complex qualities of a community-wide science education system must begin by creating an expanded definition of what constitutes a public science education system. A system-wide approach recognises that formal education entities (early childhood, elementary,...

The Synergies research–practice partnership project: a 2020 Vision case study

Broadening participation informal stem education

Dierking LD, Falk JH, Staus NL.
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JH Falk, LD Dierking, NL Staus, JN Wyld… - … of Science Education, 2016 - Springer

This paper, describes Synergies, an on-going longitudinal study and design effort, being conducted in a diverse, under-resourced community in Portland, Oregon, with the goal of measurably improving STEM learning, interest and participation by early adolescents, both in school and...

Toward an agenda for advancing research on science learning in out‐of‐school settings

out of school settings

Rennie LJ, Dierking LD, Falk JH.
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LJ Rennie, E Feher, LD Dierking, JH Falk - Journal of research in science …, 2003 - Citeseer

… issues that relate to conducting research in the domain of out-of-school science learning. In this article, we elaborate upon … settings are just one out-of-school context for learning. In their book Informal Science Learning, Crane, Nicholson, Chen, and...

The director's cut: Toward an improved understanding of learning from museums

museums

Falk J.
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J Falk - Science Education, 2004 - Wiley Online Library

… to describe and understand learning from museums. Arguably, a major strength of the past decade of research on learning from museums has been the description and investigation of many of the myriad factors that appear to influence learning...

Analysing the UK science education community: The contribution of informal providers

informal education

Falk J, Osborne J, Dierking L, Wenger M.
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J Falk, J Osborne, L Dierking, E Dawson, M Wenger… - 2012 - kclpure.kcl.ac.uk

The aim of the work reported here has been to give an overview of the support that the informal sector provides for learning and engagement with science. In addressing this goal, we have taken the view that engagement with...

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