Learning in Places : The Informal Education Reader

, by Bekerman, Zvi; Burbules, Nicholas C.; Silberman-Keller, Diana

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ISBN: 9780820467863 | 0820467863
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/16/2005

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Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potenti

Introduction

(8)

Zvi Bekerman

Nicholas C. Burbules

Diana Silberman-Keller

Beyond the Curriculum: Fostering Associational Life in Schools

(26)

Mark K. Smith

Dialogic Inquiry in Classroom and Museum: Actions, Tools, and Talk

(20)

Doris Ash

Gordon Wells

A New Angle on Families: Connecting the Mathematics of Life with School Mathematics

(22)

Shelley Goldman

Identity and Agency in Nonschool and School Worlds

(22)

Glynda A. Hull

James G. Greeno

School's Invasion of ``After-School'': Colonization, Rationalization, or Expansion of Access?

(24)

Honorine Nocon

Michael Cole

Parent-Child Conversations about Science and Literacy: Links between Formal and Informal Learning

123

(16)

Maureen A. Callanan

Gregory Braswell

Cultural Teaching and Learning: Processes, Effects, and Development of Apprenticeship Skills

139

(24)

Ashley E. Maynard

Patricia M. Greenfield

``This Is Our School of Citizenship'': Informal Learning in Local Democracy

163

(20)

Daniel Schugurensky

Culture Matters: Informal Science Centers and Cultural Contexts

183

(20)

Sally Duensing

Informal Learning: Conceptual Distinctions and Preliminary Findings

203

(26)

D. W. Livingstone

``Dancing with Words'': Narratives on Informal Education

229

(22)

Zvi Bekerman

Images of Time and Place in the Narrative of Nonformal Pedagogy

251

(22)

Diana Silberman-Keller

Self-Educating Communities: Collaboration and Learning through the Internet

273

(12)

Nicholas C. Burbules

Situating Genius

285

(18)

Ray McDermott

List of Contributors

303

(4)

Index

307

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Learning in Places : The Informal Education Reader

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