Overview
- Uses examples from around the world to show how scientific research and outreach to schools and the public can be linked effectively
- Includes wide-ranging pedagogical examples and design of outreach programs that feature the participation of research scientists and their research work
- Presents in-depth discussion of integrating technology to achieve pedagogical goals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology (ISET, volume 21)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Context
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Online Approaches
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Workshop- and Laboratory-Based Approaches
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Programme Design
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Keywords
- Earth System Science Education
- active learning in geosciences
- campus designs
- educational seismology
- geoscience education
- geoscience research
- interdisciplinary research skills
- little meteorological workshop
- outreach activities
- problem-based learning in field settings
- research-enhanced education
- research-teaching nexus
- school education
- teaching earth sciences
- teaching geology
- technology-enhanced teaching
About this book
From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, geoscience research affects people’s lives in many ways and on many levels. This book offers a stimulating cross-disciplinary perspective on the important relationship between geoscience research and outreach activities for schools and for the general public.
The contributors – academics, research scientists, science educators and outreach program educators – describe and evaluate outreach programs from around the world. A section entitled Field-based Approaches includes a chapter describing an initiative to engage Alaskan communities and students in research, and another on problem-based learning in the field setting. The Online Approaches section discusses ways to connect students and scientists using online forums; use of the web and social media, including the United Nations University and its experience with the design of a web magazine featuring geoscience research; and video clips on marine geoscience created by students and scientists. The section on Workshop and Laboratory-based Approaches includes a chapter on teaching geochronology to high school students, and another describing an extracurricular school activity program on meteorology. The Program Design section presents chapters on Integrating Geoscience Research in Primary and Secondary Education, on ways to bridge research with science education at the high school level, and on use of online geoscience data from the Great Lakes. The concluding section, Promoting Research-enhanced Outreach, offers chapters on Geoscience Outreach Education with the local community by a leading research-intensive university, and on the use of research to promote action in Earth science professional development for schoolteachers.Geoscience Research and Outreach: Schools and Public Engagement will benefit geoscience researchers who wish to promote their work beyond academia. It offers guidance to those seeking research funding from agencies, which increasingly request detailed plans for outreach activities in research proposals. Policymakers, educators and scientists working in museums, learned societies and public organizations who wish to widen participation will also find this book useful.
Together with the companion volume Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities, this book showcases the key role that geoscience research plays in a wide spectrum of educational settings.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geoscience Research and Outreach
Book Subtitle: Schools and Public Engagement
Editors: Vincent C. H. Tong
Series Title: Innovations in Science Education and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6943-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6942-7Published: 05 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8469-6Published: 27 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6943-4Published: 23 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1873-1058
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2236
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 340
Topics: Science Education, Earth Sciences, general, Educational Technology, Higher Education