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Viewing Science Learning Through an Ecosystem Lens: A Story in Two Parts

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Viewing Science Learning Through an Ecosystem Lens: A Story in Two Parts
Abstract/Description
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, secondary and post-secondary schools) are critical and necessary components to life-long, life-wide and life-deep science understanding and participation, but even collectively they represent only a small part, both physically and functionally, of the entire system. In a community-wide science education system the entire array of possible science education resources must be considered as equal contributors to public science education. Such community-wide science education system can be likened to a science learning ecosystem.
Author/creator
Falk, John H.
Dierking, Lynn D.
Date
2018
In publication
Navigating the Changing Landscape of Formal and Informal Science Learning Opportunities
Editor
Corrigan, Deborah
Buntting, Cathy
Jones, Alister
Loughran, John
Pages
1-29
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Keywords
free-choice learning
informal science learning
science learning ecosystems
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISBN
978-3-319-89761-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-89761-5_2
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Springer Link)
Citation
Falk, J. H., & Dierking, L. D. (2018). Viewing Science Learning Through an Ecosystem Lens: A Story in Two Parts. In D. Corrigan, C. Buntting, A. Jones, & J. Loughran (Eds.), Navigating the Changing Landscape of Formal and Informal Science Learning Opportunities (pp. 9–29). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89761-5_2
Cited in
The Work of Improvement
Place
Cham
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 2 Citations

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