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Dicks, Bella – Ethnography and Education, 2013
This paper presents findings from a qualitative UK study exploring the social practices of schoolchildren visiting an interactive science discovery centre. It is promoted as a place for "learning through doing", but the multi-modal, ethnographic methods adopted suggest that children were primarily engaged in (1) sensory pleasure-taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Science Education, Discovery Learning