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Bernadette F. van Heel; Riyan J. G. van den Born; Noelle Aarts – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Dutch nature organisations developed the Green Traineeship, combining out-of-the-classroom learning with voluntary work in nature for young adults, with the aim of supporting them to towards future action for nature. To better understand how young adults' engagement with nature can be strengthened and facilitated, we studied perceived knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Conservation (Environment), Volunteers
Harju, Anne; Balldin, Jutta; Ekman Ladru, Danielle; Gustafson, Katarina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
In the Nordic countries, there is a culturally rooted understanding of nature as a 'good' place for children. The aim of the article is to deconstruct this understanding by exploring how different mobile preschools -- buses that bring children to different places on a daily basis -- relate to nature spaces and children's learning and well-being in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Natural Resources, Bus Transportation, Field Trips
Tal, Tali; Dallashe, Sameer – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
We investigated the characteristics of a medical simulation-based informal learning environment (MSBE) of a science center--an environment not yet studied--to understand its uniqueness and its impact on visiting students. In the MSBE, students interact with, and operate, sophisticated simulators which demonstrate a range of medical situations.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Medical Education, Simulation, Informal Education
Smith, Amber – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted non-formal education, which includes children's informal learning and social development. Due to the required closings of many informal learning spaces, children have been left without methods to construct their learning physically and socially. This essay discusses how informal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Informal Education, School Closing
Malik, Zunera; Haidar, Sham – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
The recent years have observed a notable rise in online activities and interactions. One of the popular online interaction zones are fandom communities comprising fans of any artist, band, TV show, movie, book, and so on. These fans come together on various platforms to enthuse about their favorites with people who share their admiration and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media, Music
Kartchner, Heidi; Cherry, Tammy Messick; Talbert, Christina; McIntosh, Jennifer – Journal of Museum Education, 2021
Informal learning experiences can provide valuable visitor-to-staff interactions that require skilled staff--often volunteers--to adjust to the needs of each visitor group. These experiences are often less regimented to provide increased flexibility for both the museum and the volunteer, allowing for more diversity of volunteer support. This…
Descriptors: Museums, Informal Education, Volunteers, Training
Heidari, Elham; Mehrvarz, Mahboobe; Marzooghi, Rahmatallah; Stoyanov, Slavi – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
During the COVID-19 crisis, digital informal learning is important for students' academic engagement. Although scholars have highlighted the importance of students' digital competence in improving digital informal learning (DIL), the mediating role of DIL between digital competence and academic engagement has remained ambiguous. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Informal Education, Correlation, Technological Literacy
Dizon, Gilbert – TESOL Journal, 2021
The use of video streaming services has exploded over the past several years. However, although the use of video is a well-studied topic in computer-assisted language learning literature, the use of video streaming for out-of-class, informal foreign language (FL) learning has received little attention. This study addresses this gap in the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Internet, Informal Education, Second Language Learning
Archer, Louise; Godec, Spela; Calabrese Barton, Angela; Dawson, Emily; Mau, Ada; Patel, Uma – Science Education, 2021
Supporting more equitable participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) remains a key, persistent educational challenge. This paper employs a sociological Bourdieusian lens to explore how equitable youth outcomes might be supported through informal science learning (ISL). Drawing on multimodal, ethnographic data from…
Descriptors: Equal Education, STEM Education, Informal Education, Science Education
Kim, Mi Song – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Collaboration is often emphasized as one of the key twenty-first century competencies to promote scientific literacies through many representational modes. However, collaborative interactions have been often characterized as a coordinated, synchronous, and symmetrical activity in terms of the same level of knowledge with little attention paid…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Astronomy, Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy
Ollis, Tracey – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This case study research examines informal adult learning in the Lock the Gate Alliance, a campaign against mining for coal seam gas in Central Gippsland, Australia. In the field of the campaign, circumstantial activists learn to think critically about the environment, they learn informally and incidentally, through socialization with experienced…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Fuels
Gür, Faik; Seggie, Fatma Nevra; Basgürboga, Gülsah Kisabacak – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This study examines the visual and verbal content of advertisements in women's magazines published between 1980 and 1990 in Turkey. Based on content analysis, we established the categories of products and services, age, body parts, women's roles, clothes, and locations. We determined the five most frequent words employed in all grammatical or…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Learning, Advertising, Periodicals
O'Brien, Kate C. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
Pairing the mid-century work of Ada Dietz (1882-ca. 1970) with two compelling contemporary projects from Sonya Clark (1967- ), this article considers the ways in which normative mathematical ideas are remade through their engagement with weaving practice. Highlighting recent efforts to further ethnomathematics' original decolonial intentions, I…
Descriptors: Artists, Handicrafts, Mathematics, Informal Education
Hannoori Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This exploratory research study examined how three South Korean families in the U.S. conceptualize museum-based science learning by exploring varied contexts in which they are embedded. In applying a sociocultural perspective, I investigated the families' backgrounds, views of school and museum learning, in conjunction with their virtual museum…
Descriptors: Museums, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns
Abigail Holcombe Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Informal Learning Spaces (ILSs) are increasing in popularity in many educational and community settings (Berman, 2020). One such ILS is a makerspace, where people participate in general activities of creating, building, designing, and tinkering (Oxman Ryan, Clapp, Ross, & Tishman, 2016). Makerspaces have been touted as spaces that provide…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Informal Education, Shared Resources and Services, College Students