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Over the past three years, hundreds of community-based afterschool comic book clubs have been launched in cities across the United States. These clubs have drawn in thousands of underserved youths...
DATE: October 1st, 2006
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"The Art of Discovery" discusses an ambitious educational program taught by the artist which incorporated locative media, contemporary art, site specificity, and creative work as a proposal for the integration...
DATE: June 19th, 2009
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The science & art research played an important role in the topics covered by JCOM because actually the convergence of languages and themes of art and science increasingly continue to...
DATE: March 21st, 2013
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The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. Our current project, funded by NSF grant DRL-1224111 (“Integrating Informal STEM and ...
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DATE: November 20th, 2015
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-0943769 (""The Art of Science Learning"") at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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The Art of Science Learning conference generated a list of arts-based or arts-inspired science teaching strategies, including songwriting, architecture, theatrical pieces, and data visualization....
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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American educators and policymakers have often claimed that the arts can have powerful effects in education and that these effects may reverberate far beyond the arts. Arts education has been...
DATE: September 1st, 2000
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Awareness of the value of community youth arts could help support more formal partnerships between arts learning and afterschool organizations....
DATE: June 1st, 2010
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This paper outlines theoretical foundations, methodology, and key findings from a membership survey conducted by the San Antonio Museum Association in 1987. The study was designed to provide insights to...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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This paper provides an overview of the Audience Research Consortium of Toronto, comprised of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo, the Ontario Science Center and the Royal...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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This is a brief abstract of Pete Conroy's Master's Thesis at the University of Georgia. Through his research, Conroy identified and described two components of museum education: the audiences who...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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In this chapter, we argue that the understanding of objects that children of different ages brings to the museum setting offers a unique perspective. Little direct work on this topic...
DATE: January 1st, 2002
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Museums, science centers, zoos and other informal science education (ISE) institutions often focus on the real and authentic a way to engage, inspire or inform the public. We refer to...
DATE: May 30th, 2024
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The Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) Conservation Education Committee (CEC) supports the appropriate use of living animals in zoos and aquariums as an important and powerful educational tool to...
DATE: January 1st, 2010
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With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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On July 12, 1974, the National Research Act (Pub. L. 93-348) was signed into law, there-by creating the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral...
DATE: April 18th, 1979
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This paper examines how students, teachers, and parents evaluate residential fieldwork courses. As in prior research, findings from questionnaire data indicate that fieldwork effects social, affective, and behavioural learning. More...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This paper discusses the benefits of conducting long-term evaluations. It explains the rationale behind and methodology used in a study of "Bird Discovery Point," a group of interactive exhibits located...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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In this article, Thomas A. More of the U.S. Forest Service presents a review and discussion of current research on the benefits of urban parks. More also discusses the issues...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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Martin W. Bauer is right, two evolutionary processes are under way. These are quite significant and, in some way, they converge into public science communication: a deep evolution of discourse...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
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This article discusses "The Big History Lesson," an educational program at the Michigan Historical Museum in which teachers and students use the museum as their classroom for a week for...
DATE: September 1st, 2000
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Sometimes scientists live real dramas or undergo social and psychological conflicts which have a positive or negative influence on the development and recognition of their research, discoveries and inventions in...
DATE: October 22nd, 2007
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The collection of Leonardo da Vinci historical models at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan is one of the largest and most important in the world. Created...
DATE: October 13th, 2015
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The Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Obervatory will develop the Black Hole Experiment Gallery, a 2,500 sq ft traveling exhibition that will let visitors explore recent breakthroughs in astronomical research on black...
DATES: May 15th, 2007 - December 31st, 2012
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The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is producing "Realm of the Black Hole," a one-hour high definition television program for the PBS science series NOVA and "Black Hole: The...
DATES: January 1st, 2004 - December 31st, 2007