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Carlone, Heidi B.; Huffling, Lacey D.; Tomasek, Terry; Hegedus, Tess A.; Matthews, Catherine E.; Allen, Melony H.; Ash, Mary C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
The historical under-representation of diverse youth in environmental science education is inextricably connected to access and identity-related issues. Many diverse youth with limited previous experience to the outdoors as a source for learning and/or leisure may consider environmental science as "unthinkable." This is an ethnographic…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Enrichment Activities, Student Diversity, Environmental Education
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Carlone, Heidi B.; Scott, Catherine M.; Lowder, Cassi – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
Students' declining science interest in middle school is often attributed to psychological factors like shifts of motivational values, decrease in self-efficacy, or doubts about the utility of schooling in general. This paper adds to accounts of the middle school science problem through an ethnographic, longitudinal case study of three…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students