Centers are charged with having
a greater, and more immediate, impact on practice. To this
end, CILS pursues four central strategies to connect its research
and practice, and to build dialogue and change:
- Sharing Perspectives. CILS sponsors a
number of conferences that gather practitioners, researchers,
policymakers, and funders-all with different perspectives
and experiences on science education-to explore the needs
in the field, the findings of research, and the development
of new actions.
- Informing the Field. CILS researchers
and practitioners present their work at a targeted selection
of conferences to disseminate the cross-disciplinary questions,
methods, and findings of CILS activities with audiences
specific to research, policy,
K-12 schools, and informal science institutions.
- Supporting the Field. The CILS Web site
is designed to collect resources that can be useful to both
researchers and practitioners interested in informal learning
and informal science institutions. Annotated
bibliographies, Web links,
and current research findings
are among the resources available to the field.
- Publications. CILS disseminates its
findings through publications
that are both academic and practitioner-oriented.
See Bridging K-12
and Informal Science Institutions (PDF file) for examples
of rationale and strategies for impacting practice in the
alliances between K-12 schools and informal science institutions.
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