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Title:
Establishing a School-based Research Community (SRC) for Astronomy.
Authors:
Loughran, Thomas
Affiliation:
AA(University of Notre Dame)
Publication:
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #05.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.734
Publication Date:
12/2007
Origin:
AAS
Bibliographic Code:
2007AAS...211.0512L

Abstract

A School-based Research Community brings students into explicit collaboration with education and public outreach (E/PO) activities of scientific organizations and thus unites educational and research components of the scientific community. This poster presents an account of the nature of an SRC, and of the conditions required for planting one. An overview is given of elements required to nurture and protect such a community, and in that context the role of wiki use in such a course will be highlighted. Finally, the kind of fruit to be expected from such a community will be presented, with examples provided from an SCR established at Saint Joseph's High School in South Bend, Indiana (now in its third year.) The advantages of situating astronomy research in the context of an interdisciplinary SCR will also be sketched.
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