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  • How People Learn in Informal Science Environments

    Edited by Patricia G. Patrick ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume brings together an international perspective of 22 diverse learning theories applied to a range of informal science learning environments. The book is divided into 7 sections: community of practice, critical theory, identity theory, sociocultural, socioscientific, and social entrepreneurship, systems theory, and theory development. The chapters present how researchers from ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Preparing Informal Science Educators

    Perspectives from Science Communication and Education

    Edited by Patricia G Patrick ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a diverse look at various aspects of preparing informal science educators. Much has been published about the importance of preparing formal classroom educators, but little has been written about the importance, need, and best practices for training professionals who teach in aquariums, camps, parks, museums, etc. The reader will find that as a collective the chapters of the book ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Zoo Talk

    by Patricia G. Patrick, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Founded on the premise that zoos are ‘bilingual’—that the zoo, in the shape of its staff and exhibits, and its visitors speak distinct languages—this enlightening analysis of the informal learning that occurs in zoos examines the ‘speech’ of exhibits and staff as well as the discourse of visitors beginning in the earliest years. Using real-life conversations among visitors as a basis for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Inquiry, Strategy, Design

    by M. Elen Deming, Simon Swaffield ...
    A practical, single-source guide to successful strategies for landscape architecture researchAs the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • Open Space: People Space

    Edited by Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou ...
    Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people’s engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people’s needs and desires in the twenty-first century.Embracing issues of social inclusion, recreation, and environmental quality, the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
    Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Best Schools

    How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

    by Thomas Armstrong ...
    Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability and ignore more human elements of education, many students may miss out on opportunities to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Design for Behaviour Change

    Theories and practices of designing for change

    Edited by Kristina Niedderer, Stephen Clune, Geke Ludden ...
    Series series Design for Social Responsibility
    Design impacts every part of our lives. The design of products and services influences the way we go about our daily activities and it is hard to imagine any activity in our daily lives that is not dependent on design in some capacity. Clothing, mobile phones, computers, cars, tools and kitchenware all enable and hold in place everyday practices. Despite design’s omnipresence, the understanding of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment

    Edited by Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Vitalija Danivska ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management
    Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion ... Read more

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  • Research Methods for Environmental Psychology

    by Robert Gifford ...
    Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment.The first new book covering research methods in environmental psychology in over 25 years. Brings the subject completely up-to ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers

    Practicing what we teach

    Edited by Michael Dias, Charles J. Eick, Laurie Brantley-Dias ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Science teacher educators prepare and provide professional development for teachers at all grade levels. They seek to improve conditions in classroom teaching and learning, professional development, and teacher recruitment and retention.Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers: Practicing What We Teach tells the story of sixteen teacher educators who stepped away from their traditional role and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems

    Edited by Reinette Biggs, Alta de Vos, Rika Preiser, Hayley Clements, Kristine Maciejewski, Maja Schlüter ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research.The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in a style that is accessible to readers entering the field from a variety of different ... Read more

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