Learning in Places : The Informal Education

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

1

(8)

Zvi Bekerman

Nicholas C. Burbules

Diana Silberman-Keller

Beyond the Curriculum: Fostering Associational Life in Schools

9

(26)

Mark K. Smith

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

35

(20)

Doris Ash

Gordon Wells

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

55

(22)

Shelley Goldman

Identity and Agency in Nonschool and School Worlds

77

(22)

Glynda A. Hull

James G. Greeno

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

99

(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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