Lessons Without Limit: How Free-Choice Learning Is Transforming Education

By John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking. 2002

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Investigating public science interest and understanding: evidence for the importance of free-choice learning (2007, background): “However, even more common is the science people learn while engaged in personal investigations, through civic organizations and active leisure pursuits (Anderson, 1999; Anderson et al., 2000; Falk, 2002; Falk and Dierking, 1992, 2000, 2002).”
Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a citizen science project (2005, background): “Second, because informal science learning is under-theorized (Crane, 1994; Falk et al., 2001; Falk & Dierking, 2002), evaluations often are performed without a conceptual framework that could support the development of working hypotheses.”
Biodiversity citizen science: Outcomes for the participating citizens (2021, background): “It mainly draws from the concept of informal science education, also referred to as free- choice learning, that is, lifelong and self- directed learning outside formal education settings (Falk & Dierking, 2002).”
Motivations to seek science videos on YouTube: free-choice learning in a connected society (2018, background): “Scholars have called this sort of self-directed learning free-choice learning because learners approach information freely, often guided by intrinsic motivations (Chittenden, Farmelo, & Lewenstein, 2004; Falk & Dierking, 2002).”
Using questions sent to an Ask‐A‐Scientist site to identify children's interests in science (2006, background): “…free-choice science-learning environments can provide knowledge about the natural setting in which people learn in a self-directed, self-motivated, voluntary way, guided by individual needs and interests (Falk & Dierking, 2002), and has much to offer to formal education (Walter & Westbrook, 2001).”