LEADER 05020nam 22006855 450 001 9910961840503321 005 20250717134823.0 010 $a94-6091-963-4 010 $a94-6091-964-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-6091-964-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001170558 035 $a(EBL)1106401 035 $a(OCoLC)822998728 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000879591 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11554363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879591 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10853926 035 $a(PQKB)10371297 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-6091-964-0 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789460919640 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3034759 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10635929 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425070 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1106401 035 $a(PPN)168343169 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3034759 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001170558 100 $a20121208d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnu|||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE $eTools for Research in Informal Settings /$fedited by Doris Ash, Jrčne Rahm, Leah M. Melber 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 1$aRotterdam :$cSensePublishers :$cImprint: SensePublishers,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (194 pages) 225 1 $aNew Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ;$v25 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a94-6091-962-6 311 08$a1-283-93820-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material /$rDoris Ash , Jrčne Rahm and Leah M. Melber -- Introduction /$rDoris B. Ash and Jrčne Rahm -- A Reflective Hermeneutic Approach to Research Methods Investigating Visitor Learning /$rDavid Anderson -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Methodologies for Reflective Practice and Museum Educator Research /$rDoris B. Ash and Judith Lombana -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Reframing Collaborations with Informal Science Institutions /$rJames Kisiel -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Action Research as a Means to Learn to Teach in Out-Of-School Settings /$rTali Tal -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Tracing our Methodological Steps /$rThao Mai and Doris Ash -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Multi-Sited Ethnography /$rJrčne Rahm -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Mediated Action as a Framework for Exploring Learning in Informal Settings /$rShawn Rowe and Jennifer Bachman -- Putting Theory into Practice /$rLeah Melber -- Epilogue /$rSteven R. Guberman -- About the Authors /$rDoris Ash , Jrčne Rahm and Leah M. Melber -- Index /$rDoris Ash , Jrčne Rahm and Leah M. Melber. 330 $aInformal learning, also called free choice learning or out-of-school time, is a relatively new field that has grown exponentially in the past 15 years. Research on the learning and teaching that takes place in these non-traditional, non-classroom environments, such as museums, gardens, afterschool and community programs, has enjoyed tremendous growth; yet we still need to understand much more, and more deeply, how people actually interact, participate and learn in such settings. Putting Theory into Practice: Tools for Research in Informal Settings is designed as a research and practice toolkit, offering a range of theoretically well-grounded methods for assessing learning for life in diverse settings and among diverse populations. We pay special attention to the full complexity, challenges and richness involved in such research into learning in places like museums, aquariums, after-school clubs, and gardens. Putting Theory into Practice serves both, researchers and practitioners, as well as a more general audience. This book offers several field-tested methods for building empirically-based, informal learning settings and research deeply grounded and guided by theory. Sociocultural theory, broadly defined, forms the unifying theoretical framework for the different qualitative studies presented. Each chapter clearly lays out the theoretical underpinnings and how these inform the suggested methods. The chapters are written by recognized experts in the field, and each addresses, in its own way, ?the synergy among different learning contexts and the benefits of studying how contexts influence learning.? Together they give voice to the diversity, richness, and complexity of the study of learners and learning for life. 410 0$aNew Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ;$v25 606 $aEducation 606 $aEducation 615 0$aEducation. 615 14$aEducation. 676 $a374 701 $aAsh$b Doris$01793479 701 $aRahm$b Jre?ne$01793480 701 $aMelber$b Leah M$01793481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961840503321 996 $aPUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE$94333319 997 $aUNINA