Teach. & learn. in non-school settings such as museums is a topic of increasing interest to researchers in psych, educ (sci, art, soc stud), cog sci, and to spe

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The goal of this book is to cull from the last NSF conference, the "best ideas about how children interact with objects & through that interaction acquire new u