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Fourteen Years of Education and Public Outreach for the Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer Mission

, 2014
The Sonoma State University (SSU) Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) group leads the Swift Education and Public Outreach program. For Swift, we have previously implemented broad efforts that have contributed to NASA's Science Mission Directorate E/PO ...
Cominsky, Lynn, McLin, Kevin, Simonnet, Aurore, Team, the Swift E/PO   +3 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Analogical education in times of virtuality: Back to the hands-on activities – 15 years of NASE program

Open Astronomy
The interplay among emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and creative activities that involve engaging not only thought or the brain, but also the entire organism to produce a product, such as creating 3D models through cutting ...
García Beatriz
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Gamified approach to teaching introductory astronomy online

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] An increased interest in using video games in educational contexts has led to many innovations in both formal and informal environments.
Daniel F. Barringer, Julia D. Plummer, Julia Kregenow, Christopher Palma   +3 more
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Gender discrimination in physics and astronomy: Graduate student experiences of sexism and gender microaggressions

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women’s underrepresentation in physics and astronomy.
Ramón S. Barthelemy, Melinda McCormick, Charles Henderson   +2 more
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
wiley   +1 more source

A STEAM approach supported by the meaningful learning theory to teach the solar system in lower secondary education (9th grade)

Frontiers in Education
This article presents an innovative interdisciplinary approach to teaching the solar system in lower secondary education (9th grade), grounded in David Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning Theory and the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and ...
Michel Corci Batista, Ivana Kelly Cintra Reinisz, Taisy Fernandes Vieira, Ederson Carlos Gomes, Oscar Rodrigues dos Santos, Olavo Leopoldino da Silva Filho, Marcello Ferreira   +6 more
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Particle astrophysics [PDF]

The following scientific areas are reviewed: (1) cosmology and particle physics (particle physics and the early universe, dark matter, and other relics); (2) stellar physics and particles (solar neutrinos, supernovae, and unconventional particle physics);
Aprile, Elena, Barish, Barry C., Beier, Eugene W., Brandenberger, Robert, Cabrera, Blas, Caldwell, David, Cassiday, George, Cline, David B., Cronin, James, Sadoulet, Bernard   +9 more
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