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Direct linkAsh, Doris; Lombana, Judith – Journal of Museum Education, 2013
In this article we argue for "reculturing" museums, starting with the ways that museum educators are professionally developed, focusing, in particular, on working with diverse visitors. By "reculturing" we mean shifting the core values and practices of a museum community, starting with its education practices. The aim of…
Descriptors: Museums, Teaching Methods, Audiences, Educational Methods
Rahm, Jrene; Ash, Doris – Learning Environments Research, 2008
In this article, we explore how two informal educational contexts--an aquarium and an after-school science program--enabled disenfranchised learners to adopt an identity as insiders to the world of science. We tell the stories of four youth, relating what doing science meant to them and how they positioned themselves in relation to science. We…
Descriptors: School Activities, Science Programs, After School Programs, Recreational Facilities
Ash, Doris; Crain, Rhiannon; Brandt, Carol; Loomis, Molly; Wheaton, Mele; Bennett, Christine – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
The goal of this study is to explore new tools for analyzing scientific sense-making in out-of-school settings. Although such measures are now common in science classroom research, dialogically based methodological approaches are relatively new to informal learning research. Such out-of-classroom settings have more recently become a breeding…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Sciences, Classroom Research, Biological Sciences
Wheaton, Mele; Ash, Doris – Journal of Museum Education, 2008
Many informal science educational programs aim to help students improve their understanding of science. Little research, however, has focused specifically on the direct experiences and subsequent ideas of culturally and linguistically diverse girls when they engage with science in informal learning settings. The research described in this report…
Descriptors: Day Camp Programs, Females, Recreational Facilities, Marine Biology
Peer reviewedAsh, Doris – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
Illustrates the efficacy of an approach for collecting and analyzing family conversational data at museums and other informal settings. Examines data from three families which focus on conversation centered on biological themes, specifically adaptation. Analyzes inquiry skills used in making sense of science content. Offers educators…
Descriptors: Biology, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Family Attitudes
Ash, Doris – Science Education, 2004
In this paper I focus on the transition from everyday to scientific ways of reasoning, and on the intertwined roles of meaning-making dialogue and science content as they contribute to scientific literacy. I refer to views of science, and how scientific understanding is advanced dialogically, by Hurd (Science Education, 1998, 82, 402-416), Brown…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Environment, Scientific Literacy, Informal Education
