Center for Informal Learning and Schools

非正式学习和学校中心（CILS）是由位于旧金山弗朗西斯科的探索馆、位于圣克鲁斯的加州大学和伦敦国王学院共同合作的一个为期五年的项目。 该中心的目的是研究在博物馆和科学中心进行的非正式科学学习与在学校进行的正式学习的交叉点，并培养非正式科学教育的领导者。通过该中心的努力，将培养了解非正式科学学习如何发生以及非正式机构如何为科学教育改革做出贡献的新的博士级领导者。 博士学位该计划将提供给16个人在国王学院伦敦（两个八人组）和博士后计划，以六个科学家感兴趣的学习和教学问题，在非正式的设置。 计划在圣克鲁斯的加州大学为24名学生开设博士课程，其中12名学生的兴趣主要是教育，12名学生来自科学。 除了博士水平的培训外，还将为现有的非正式科学专业人员提供认证计划，以使他们能够更好地支持教师，学生和公众。 该项目将为160名非正式科学教育工作者提供120小时的专业发展经验，并为另外24名非正式科学教育工作者提供加州大学圣克鲁斯非正式科学教育硕士学位。 将建立一个海湾地区研究所，作为CILS所有活动的中心。 它将汇集研究人员和从业人员;它将为研究生提供课程和讲习班;它将为报告研究结果和方法提供一个中心地点，重点是非正式学习机构如何能够最好地为科学教育改革做出贡献。

The Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) is a five-year collaborative effort between the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and King's College London. The purpose of the Center is to study the intersection of informal science learning that takes place in museums and science centers and formal learning that takes place in schools, and to prepare leaders in informal science education.Through the efforts of the center, new doctoral level leaders will be prepared who understand how informal science learning takes place and how informal institutions can contribute to science education reform. A Ph.D. program will be offered to 16 individuals at King's College London (two cohorts of eight) and a post-doctoral program to six scientists interested in issues of learning and teaching in informal settings. A doctoral program is planned at the University of California at Santa Cruz for 24 students, 12 whose interests are primarily in education and 12 who come from the sciences. In addition to doctoral level training, there will be a certification program for existing informal science professionals to better enable them to support teachers, students and the general public. That program will provide 160 informal science educators 120 hours of professional development experiences, and an additional 24 informal science educators with a master's degree in informal science education at UC Santa Cruz. A Bay Area Institute will be developed to serve as a central focus for all CILS activities. It will bring together researchers and practitioners; it will offer courses and workshops for graduate students; and it will provide a central location for reporting research findings and methodologies that focus on how informal learning institutions can best contribute to science education reform.