Teacher Learning and Informal Science Education chronicles Jennifer D.
Adams’ teaching and research journey in informal science education.
While the primary focus of the book is research on teacher learning
and identity in informal science education, it contains bursts of
reflections of Adams’ navigation of learning spaces from childhood
visits to the museum, class trips as a high school teacher, designing
and facilitating learning as a museum and teacher educator, and
researcher. These learning interactions inspired research to learn how
teachers’ identities and corresponding practices were influenced by
informal science learning. What emerged was the ways that teachers
transformed meanings, pedagogies, and enactments of informal science
in ways that both resonated with their identities as social agents
vis-à-vis the identities and needs of their students. Recognising the
importance of historical context in current and ongoing educational
inequities, this book offers a chapter that unpacks the colonial
history of the museum and discusses the relevance for science teaching
and learning today. With New York City as the backdrop, this book
emphasizes the teaching and learning in an urban context with creative
teachers who are passionate about their practice and their brilliant
and diverse middle and high school students. This book offers
theoretical considerations for designing learning experiences, with a
research-to-practice emphasis, for teachers across formal and informal
settings in ways that are attentive to and affirming of students’
and teachers’ identities and desires to utilize science education as
a tool to create flourishing futures.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781636672823
Publisert
2024
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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