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Nature, 1964 The Young Astronomers' Companion By K. Fea. Pp. 160 + 12 plates. (London: Souvenir Press, Ltd., 1962.) 18S. net. Handbook of Telescope Making By N. E. Howard. Pp. x + 322. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1962.) 45S. Experiments in Sky Watching By Dr. Franklyn M. Branley. Pp. 117. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1962.) 21s. net. The Moon Earth's Natural
John Heywood
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Astronomy Education: an international perspective [PDF]
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1998 Education is important to astronomers because it affects the recruitment and training of future astronomers, and because it affects the awareness, understanding and appreciation of astronomy by taxpayers and politicians who support us. We have an obligation to share the excitement and the significance of our work with students and the public. Education
John R. Percy
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Astronomy in the City for Astronomy Education [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2015 AbstractAstronomy is part of our culture. Astronomy cannot be isolated in a classroom, it has to be integrated in the normal life of teachers and students. “Astronomy in the city” is an important part of NASE (Network for Astronomy School Education) (Ros & Hemenway 2012). In each NASE course we introduce a “working group session” chaired by a local
Rosa M. Ros, Beatriz Garc
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On the problem of astronomy education in Ukraine [PDF]
Astronomical School’s Report, 2001 Widening of astronomy learning in schools and pedagogical universities is proposed. It’s necessary to pay attention to between-subjects links during the process of astronomy teachers’ preparation: astronomy and mathematics, physics, biology, ecology philosophy.
Iryna Koval
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AMATURE ASTRONOMY AND ASTRONOMY EDUCATION IN INDIA
Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society, 2015 In India, astronomy has been studied from the beginning of civilization. The word amateur means involvement in work for pleasure rather than as a profesion. So, amateur astronomers, in many places, prefer to be called non-professional astronomers. In India, the history of amateur astronomy is quite bright. From the Puranic age astronomy was studied for
SOMENATH CHATTERJEE
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Astrobites as a Community-led Model for Education, Science Communication, and Accessibility in Astrophysics [PDF]
, 2019 Support for early career astronomers who are just beginning to explore astronomy research is imperative to increase retention of diverse practitioners in the field.
Bridge, Joanna S. +25 more
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Astronomy and mathematics education [PDF]
Highlights of Astronomy, 2005 Astronomy has an interdisciplinary aspect that in some cases is very positive. It is interesting to combine Astronomy with other topics and introduce Astronomy in general projects in school in order to integrate several courses, for instance Physics, Mathematics, Geography, Biology or History; however these kinds of projects are sporadic.
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Crowdfunding Astronomy Research with Google Sky [PDF]
, 2015 For nearly four years, NASA's Kepler space telescope searched for planets like Earth around more than 150,000 stars similar to the Sun. In 2008 with in-kind support from several technology companies, our non-profit organization established the Pale Blue ...
Metcalfe, Travis S.
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Astronomy Education in the East [PDF]
Highlights of Astronomy, 1998 In the IAU, there is the Commission 46 “Teaching of Astronomy” to which at least one representative from each member country belongs. At an occasion of the Asian-Pacific regional meeting of the IAU held in Beijing in 1987, there was a resolution to set up a committee of Teaching of Astronomy in the Asian-Pacific region.
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Discovering New Variable Stars at Key Stage 3 [PDF]
, 2017 Details of the London pilot of the `Discovery Project' are presented, where university-based astronomers were given the chance to pass on some real and applied knowledge of astronomy to a group of selected secondary school pupils.
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