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Learning in places : the informal education reader / edited by Zvi Bekerman, Nicholas C. Burbules, Diana Silberman Keller. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bekerman, Zvi, Author.
- Series:
- Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 249.
- Counterpoints ; v. 249
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Non-formal education.
- Self-culture.
- Continuing education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 315 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes - in museums, workplaces, classrooms, places of recreation - in a variety of political, social and cultural contexts around the world. Learning in Places presents the most recent theoretical advances in the field; analyzing the social, cultural, political, historical and economical contexts within which informal learning develops and must be critiqued. It also looks into the epistemology that nourishes its development and into the practices that characterize its implementation; and finally reflects on the variety of educational contexts in which it is practiced.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Zvi Bekerman, Nicholas C. Burbules and Diana Silberman-Keller
- Beyond the curriculum : fostering associational life in schools / Mark K. Smith
- Dialogic inquiry in classroom and museum : actions, tools, and talk / Doris Ash and Gordon Wells
- A new angle on families : connecting the mathematics of life with school mathematics / Shelley Goldman
- Identity and agency in nonschool and school worlds / Glynda A. Hull and James G. Greeno
- School's invasion of "after-school" : colonization, rationalization, or expansion of access? / Honorine Nocon and Michael Cole
- Parent-child conversations about science and literacy : links between formal and informal learning / Maureen A. Callanan and Gregory Braswell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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