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2024
article
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Mary Ann Steiner, Karen A. Knutson, Kevin J. Crowley
Many people living in rural areas are aware of the impacts of climate change and often have climate beliefs that are aligned with the scientific consensus. However, climate change conversations in rural communities may be seen as divisive, political, and potential sources …
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2024
article
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Bonnie M. McGill, Taiji Nelson, Mary Ann Steiner, Nicole E. Heller
An urban natural history museum and university partnered with rural conservation organizations to support a climate learning network in southwestern Pennsylvania, a region with a fossil fuels heritage. Network members recognized the urgent need to address climate change at the system scale …
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2023
article
OpenAlex
Mary Ann Steiner, Karen A. Knutson, Kevin J. Crowley, Nicole E. Heller et autres
A research-practice partnership between museum-based educators and scientists, learning researchers, and rural community members was designed to support climate change education in public settings. We consider the museum’s role in this work, tracing how the partnership built upon lessons learned from prior …
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2023
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Taiji Nelson, Mary Ann Steiner
This essay presents a first-person account of a museum&s;s efforts to listen deeply and engage in climate change conversations within a local, rural context. The museum was the source of the interaction design, the context is a Western Pennsylvanian rural community, and …
2020
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Karen A. Knutson, Kevin J. Crowley, Jennifer Lin Russell, Mary Ann Steiner
In this chapter, we use two studies conducted in art museum settings as a means to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges for the field of informal art education. The first study explores art-making processes that take place in a children’s …
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2020
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Mary Ann Steiner, Mandela Lyon, Kevin J. Crowley
Science and nature museums have an opportunity to play a pivotal role in supporting open-ended, civic engagement in climate change. This chapter illustrates processes and tools that allowed museums to collaborate with community organizations as a network, using tabletop activities (“kits”) and …
2016
article
OpenAlex
Mary Ann Steiner
Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, can move an audience to tears. He doesn't get that result with the distressing accounts of individuals whose gang activities sank them to harrowing depths. He does it …
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2016
article
OpenAlex
Mary Ann Steiner
This study of climate change education dissemination takes place in the context of a larger project where institutions in four cities worked together to develop a linked set of informal learning experiences about climate change. Each city developed an organizational network to …
2015
editorial
OpenAlex
Kevin E Lofton, Mary Ann Steiner
2014
editorial
OpenAlex
Richard J Gilfillan, Mary Ann Steiner
2013
article
OpenAlex
Mary Ann Steiner, Kevin J. Crowley
Abstract Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the University of Pittsburgh are engaged in a research and practice partnership to bring new learning sciences findings and theories into contact with the design and deployment of innovative natural history learning experiences. In this …
2010
article
OpenAlex
Christine A. Reich, Jeremy F. Price, Ellen V. Rubin, Mary Ann Steiner