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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gross, Alan
• Buehl, Jonathan
• Gross, Alan G

Titel

Why People Care About Chickens and Other Lessons About Rhetoric, Public Science, and Informal Learning Environments

Ist Teil von

• Science and the Internet, 2016, p.251-270

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When, where, and how do people learn science? In response to this question, theNational Academy of Sciences report, “Learning Science in Informal Environ-ments” (Bell, Lewenstein, Shouse, & Feder, 2009) stressed the importance ofeveryday experiences, designed spaces like museums and science centers, non-school science education programs, and science media. The report built on anarray of scholarship attuned to science learning as a lifelong, often self-motivatedendeavor. The findings are not surprising. In all cases, we spend more of our liveslearning outside of classrooms and other formal learning institutions than wedo inside them (Gerber, Cavallo, & Marek, 2001). The situation is analogouswhen we think about when, where, and why people engage public science. Oftenthe scholarly literature focuses on deliberation in related normative forums,yet most of us engage science issues in ways (and in places) less structured andmore connected to circumstances of daily life (Barron, 2006; Falk, Storksdieck,& Dierking, 2007). Indeed, in these less structured forums, what we do wouldnot often be considered “deliberation” at all by scholars. This is particularlytrue for learning and engagement online, which can be easily understood as toomessy to be useful (Grabill & Pigg, 2012).