More people participate in non-school based science and environmental education each year than attend all professional sports combined. This course seeks answers to questions about what and how they learn in these kinds of settings by reviewing research and practice in what has been called free-choice learning: the learning that occurs when people believe that they have choices over what they learn, how they learn, how much time they spend learning, and their sources of information. We will examine research on learning in and from museums, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens and interactive science centers, as well as after-school programs, magazines, newspapers,television and apprenticeships.

Instructor:

Dr. Shawn Rowe

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