"The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in fundamentally different ways. Meeting these challenges requires not only the creation of knowledge but the development of wisdom. This book draws together forty years of scholarship and practice, along with original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know. As evident from the perspective of the learner, a pattern of four distinctive...

"Practitioners in informal science settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardens--are interested in finding out what learning looks like, how to measure it, and what they can do to ensure that people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures, have a positive learning experience. Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments,...

This thesis explored the current use of facilitator and educator processing skills in adventure education and experiential education programs and in the traditional school classroom. A nonestablished, mixed methods survey was piloted that inquired about facilitator demographics as well as the use of various teaching and experiential processing techniques was completed by 23 traditional secondary education teachers and 14 college students who majored...