Found 9357 results. Change search to: repository and web pages combined or website only.
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Science, politics, industry, media, state-run and private organisations, private citizens: everyone has their own demands, their own heritage of knowledge, thoughts, opinions, aspirations, needs. Different worlds that interact, question one...
DATE: March 20th, 2009
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
One of the main purposes of weather forecasting is that of protecting weather-sensitive human activities. Forecasts issued in the probabilistic form have a higher informative content, as opposed to deterministic...
DATE: March 20th, 2009
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
There is a compelling need to ensure that the points of view and preferences of stakeholders are fully considered and incorporated into natural resources management strategies. Stakeholders include a diverse...
DATE: February 24th, 2009
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Mouse-related research in the life sciences has expanded remarkably over the last two decades, resulting in growing use of the term “mouse model”. Our interviews with 64 leading Japanese life...
DATE: January 26th, 2009
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The Exploratorium explainer program is not only important to the young people involved, but is an integral part of the museum culture. This initiative that started to help the youth...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This article seeks to reflect on mediation in museums based on experiences that occurred in the “Learning in order to Teach” Project. In this case, the mediation acquires specific...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Peer training provides Explainers with the knowledge, skills and confidence to facilitate high quality interactions with visitors. These are skills that carry into their academic, personal and professional lives. Explainers...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This paper discusses three mediation concept approaches and, consequently, three facets of mediator action. The approaches presented start with a bibliographical review of the concept of mediation present in...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The creation of a scientific culture through the experiences that can be offered in a museum is the central theme in the training of guides at Universum. Emphasising the social...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The Science House of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) is a space where science is approached through the perspective of culture, seeking interdisciplinarity, stimulating debate among different...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. Forest Science Dialogues is a pathways project to...
DATE: March 1st, 2016
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The initiatives focusing the professional development of explainers are multiplying around the world, building an informal network of researchers, museums managers and directors, explainers, and regional/continental networks, as THE group,...
DATE: May 6th, 2016
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In a refereed journal in the food and agriculture sector, papers were tracked over a five-year period during the introduction of electronic submissions. Papers originated in the Americas and Pacific...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The importance the Brazilian government has given in the last few years to the dissemination of science points out the necessity of a more discerning analysis about the establishment of...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Head Start on Engineering (HSE) is a collaborative, NSF-funded research and practice project designed to develop and refine a theoretical model of early childhood, engineering-related interest development. The project focuses...
DATE: May 6th, 2016
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The knowledge deficit model with regard to the public has been severely criticized in the sociology of the public perception of science. However, when dealing with public decisions regarding scientific...
DATE: December 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In January 2006, my wife Susannah Sayler and I set out to photograph landscapes around the world that were being transformed by global warming. We called our work The Canary...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Artists have used the environment as a subject forever and there is a long history of artists whose works affect peoples’ awareness of and perceptions of their natural environments. But...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Despite the developed world’s climate-controlled interiors and easy access to all kinds of fresh produce at any time of year, our lives are still dependent upon the weather and climate....
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Artists create new aesthetics to communicate new messages and new concerns. Apprehension about the climate, its changes, global warming and a disposition to anxiously running after an ideal sustainable development...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In the globalisation era, arts have provided food for thought on “how latitudes became forms”, to stress again that now, at global level, one should no longer define art as...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In this paper, the authors synthesize three types of research-practice partnerships (RPPs) for informal learning. The article includes descriptions of example partnerships between local researchers and informal educators from the...
DATE: October 1st, 2015
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
At the end of the dark ages, anatomy was taught as though everything that could be known was known. Scholars learned about what had been discovered rather than how to...
DATE: March 1st, 2016
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Learning to See, Seeing to Learn: A Sociotechnical System Supporting Taxonomic Identification Activities in Volunteer-Based Water Quality Biomonitoring is an Innovations in Development proposal to further develop and study a...
DATE: September 1st, 2015
