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Preparing Informal Science Educators

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In 2013, I began a journey that led me through happiness, turmoil, and personal and professional growth, and now I have seen where I started and I know it for the first time (T.S. Elliot quote above). Prior to 2013, I wanted desperately to be an informal science educator.

Why does the sun set in the west? And why does my heart keep beating.

in my chest?…I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. (Buffett & Mayer, 1999).

And the end of all our exploring.

will be to arrive where we started.

and to know the place for the first time. (Eliot, 1971, p. 51).

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Patrick, P.G. (2017). Introduction. In: Patrick, P. (eds) Preparing Informal Science Educators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50398-1_1

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