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ERIC Number: EJ636006
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Connecting School and Community with Science Learning: Real World Problems and School-Community Partnerships as Contextual Scaffolds.
Bouillion, Lisa M.; Gomez, Louis M.
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v38 n8 p878-98 Oct 2001
Explores a form of "connected science" in which real world problems and school-community partnerships are used as contextual scaffolds for bridging students' community-based knowledge and school-based knowledge as a way to provide all students opportunities for meaningful and intellectually challenging science learning. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Relevance (Education), School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Science Education, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Special issue: Urban Science Education.