Apologies for cross-referencing

NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) has recently published a new publication called Science in the countryside: Lifelong learning and ecological citizenship, by Margaret Pilkington.

Based on the ecological course that Margaret teaches at Sussex University, this book is a glowing example of how to engage adults in science education and creating more ecological citizens. The book raises awareness of such courses and shows the benefit they have in increasing participation in science education, motivating people to work with the environment, and raising the consciousness of ecology's importance to the world today. It is also a celebration of lifelong learning. Margaret addresses a growing concern that science courses aren't including enough fieldwork and research, leading to students lacking the necessary skills they need for biological recording and wildlife montioring. This book highlights research techniques and fieldwork examples, that can be easily adopted and used a blue-print for training. 

I have included further details about the book below, along with a weblink for more information.

	Science in the Countryside
	Lifelong Learning for ecological citizenship
	Margaret Pilkington 
	ISBN: 1 86201 213 X, July 2005, 232pp, £18.95
	Here is an irresistible case for scientific rigour and dedicated adult education as essential components of an informed and effective democracy. 
	Margaret Pilkington's description of the first-class, long-running ecological studies of woodlands and meadows carried out by her university continuing education students shows the power of science education rooted in the countryside. Learning through fieldwork leads to a better understanding of how science works, and to the acquisition of skills needed for biodiversity conservation in local habitats.
	This book is addressed to teachers in adult education, scientists and non-scientists: they will be engaged by the ways in which difficult concepts and complex skills are explained by an extraordinary teacher and mastered by her impressive students. It is also addressed to science educators in universities and colleges: they will be reassured and even excited by its examples of how mature students master and apply the principles of experimental work. And it is addressed to everyone interested in conservation, the environment and biodiversity: they will be interested by the fieldwork, the habitats and the experimental results. They should be inspired by its description of the creation of scores of knowledgeable, articulate and active ecological citizens.
	Priced at £18.95, Science in the countryside is available from NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester, LE1 7GE 
	Tel 0116 204 4216
	Fax 0116 204 4276
	http://www.niace.org.uk/publications/S/ScienceCountryside.htm
*Please note that orders cannot be invoiced for under £35.00*


NIACE also has a special offer available from Monday 24th October 2005. To celebrate four years of our online bookshop, NIACE will be offering a 10% discount on all books purchased online before the end of November 2005.

So if you would like to save 10% when purchasing a copy Science in the countryside online, along with all of NIACE's books, click on the link below before the end of November 2005.
www.niace.org.uk/publications

Best Wishes

Elisabeth Prince
Publications Marketing Assistant

NIACE