Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators: A Guide for Museums, Out-of-school, and Other Informal Settings

Halversen, Catherine

Tran, Lynn Uyen

Arts & Photography

Routledge

Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators is a guidebook to lead a professional learning program for educators working in STEM learning environments. 
Making research on the science of human learning accessible to educational professionals around the world, this book shows educators how to relate this research to their own practice. Educators’ collective work broadens the scope of an organization’s reach, and through this effort, the organization grows its social capital in its local community and beyond. This book offers opportunities to engage in processes that lead toward organizational learning by attending to the professional growth of the educators. Tran and Halversen show how learning together can shape the language and meanings by which educators do and talk about their work to support visitors’ experiences. The book provides guidance on how teams of educators can build community as they engage in reflective practice. 
Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators will be essential reading for leaders of any organization that aims to educate and engage the public in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It will be particularly useful to educators who work in museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, youth organizations, after-school programs, and nature, science, and conservation centres.

The Reflective Museum Practitioner: Expanding Practice in Science Museums

The Reflective Museum Practitioner explores a range of expansive and creative ways in which the concept of 'reflective practice' has been applied in the informal STEM learning environments of museums and zoos. It seeks to demonstrate how such a process can inspire lifelong learning in practitioners, to the benefit of practitioners and visitors alike.  Presenting six projects that employed reflective practice, the contributors examine how each project has encouraged and sustained reflection, and the outcomes thereof. The projects cover a wide range of different practitioners - including administrators, scientists, educators, and other front-line and back-room staff - who work at different junctures of their organizations. Collectively, they raise key questions about changing communities of practice in ISL institutions. The projects and concept of 'reflective practice' are fully defined and contextualised by the editors, who offer in-depth analysis, along with a cultural-historical activity theory framework, for understanding how changes in museum practice unfold in an institutional context.  The Reflective Museum Practitioner offers museum professionals insight into 'reflective practice', as practiced as other institutions in their sector, providing practical examples that can be adapted to their needs. It will also be of interest to scholars and students focusing on science museums, or professional practice development in museums.

Martín, Laura

Ash, Doris

The Reflective Museum Practitioner explores a range of expansive and creative ways in which the concept of “reflective practice” has been applied in the informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning environments of museums and zoos. It seeks to demonstrate how such a process can inspire lifelong learning in practitioners, to the benefit of practitioners and visitors alike. Presenting six projects that employed reflective practice, the contributors examine how each project has encouraged and sustained reflection, and the outcomes thereof. The projects cover a wide range of different practitioners―including administrators, scientists, educators, and other front-line and back-room staff―who work at different junctures of their organizations. Collectively, they raise key questions about changing communities of practice in Informal Science Learning institutions. The projects and concept of “reflective practice” are fully defined and contextualized by the editors, who offer in-depth analysis, along with a cultural-historical activity theory framework, for understanding how changes in museum practice unfold in an institutional context. The Reflective Museum Practitioner offers museum professionals insight into “reflective practice,” as practiced by other institutions in their sector, providing practical examples that can be adapted to their needs. It will also be of interest to scholars and students focusing on science museums, or professional practice development in museums.

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Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators: A Guide for Museums, Out-of-school, and Other Informal Settings

Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators: A Guide for Museums, Out-of-school, and Other Informal Settings

The Reflective Museum Practitioner: Expanding Practice in Science Museums

The Reflective Museum Practitioner: Expanding Practice in Science Museums