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The Role of Science Centres as Aids for Astronomical Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

J. Fierro
J. Fierro*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM Mexico

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Education is training, part of which is being able to handle information. At meetings such as this, one learns new ways to teach and to adapt ideas to one's culture in a way they can have a greater influence on the lay person (Pasachoff and Percy, 1990; Percy, 1996). A reason to promote science popularization is to give people a chance to experience the pleasure of understanding.

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