scholarly journals Free-choice learning in school science: a model for collaboration between formal and informal science educators

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Dunlop ◽  
Linda Clarke ◽  
Valerie McKelvey-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
School Science ◽  
Informal Science ◽  
Free Choice Learning ◽  
Science Educators

scholarly journals Lessons without limit: how free-choice learning is transforming science and technology education

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (suppl) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn D. Dierking
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Science And Technology Education ◽  
Free Choice Learning ◽  
Science Educators

Societies are becoming nations of lifelong learners supported by a vast infrastructure of learning organizations. The centers of this learning revolution are not schools, but a network of organizations and media (museums, libraries, television, books, and increasingly the Internet) supporting the public's ever-growing demand for free-choice learning - learning guided by a person's needs and interests. Science learning is an important part of this revolution. Traditional boundaries and roles distinguishing groups of science educators and institutions are disappearing. To not understand and embrace these changes will impede our ability to enhance science learning worldwide.

scholarly journals Impact of Youth and Adult Informal Science Educators on Youth Learning at Exhibits

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
L. McGuire ◽  
A. J. Hoffman ◽  
K. L. Mulvey ◽  
M. Winterbottom ◽  
F. Balkwill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Science ◽  
Science Educators

Form Follows Function: Interpretive Wisdom for Environmental Educators

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve M. Turek
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
Free Choice Learning

A review of the literature reveals that interpreters’ emphasis on individual connection to the resource offers environmental educators key strategies to promote engagement and addresses critiques of environmental education practice as too generalized, behaviorist, manipulative, or negative. Interpreters serve as the nation's front-line environmental educators, with the foremost opportunity to inspire adults to engage in the free-choice learning that may, at best, motivate deeper ecological awareness and personal environmental activism. Pairing interpreters with teachers can extend the same opportunities to students.

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