Learning from Museums

Learning from Museums
Author: John Howard Falk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780742502956

Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.

The Museum Experience

The Museum Experience
Author: John H Falk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131541788X

In the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, Falk and Dierking present research findings to demonstrate people's motivations for visiting museums and how museum professionals can enhance their visitors' experiences.

Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums

Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums
Author: Scott G. Paris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135645280

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 understandings, attitudes, and feelings."

Museums and Interactive Virtual Learning

Museums and Interactive Virtual Learning
Author: Allyson Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2022
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781003224815

"Museums and Interactive Virtual Learning provides informal educators with practical resources that will help them to build dynamic digital engagement experiences within their own cultural organizations. Presenting vignettes from experienced museum educators and end users, as well as scientific data and practical resources, the book highlights the mutual benefits interactive virtual learning (IVL) programs offer to the museum and those visiting from a distance. Chapters mirror the step-by-step process of developing reputable IVL programs and emphasize how important it is for cultural organizations to encourage cross-departmental collaboration, if they wish to ensure that their programs align with the overall goals of the organization. Providing a thorough overview of the technologies, budget, marketing and staff requirements, the authors offer a realistic depiction of the work involved in building content for digital engagement. Emphasising the importance of assessing existing programming, the book shows how institutions can adapt content to fit a virtual format and create inclusive digital engagement opportunities that reach local, national, and international audiences. Museums and Interactive Virtual Learning is an essential guide for professionals who are tasked with interpreting the content of a cultural organization and building lasting digital engagement opportunities. It will be particularly useful to those looking to reach diverse audiences"--

Museums and Education

Museums and Education
Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2007-12-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134181698

At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance. The need to theorise learning and culture for a cultural theory of learning is very pressing. If culture acts as a process of signification, a means of producing meaning that shapes worldviews, learning in museums and other cultural organisations is potentially dynamic and profound, producing self-identities. How is this complexity to be ‘measured’? What can this ‘measurement’ reveal about the character of museum-based learning? The calibration of culture is an international phenomenon, and the measurement of the outcomes and impact of learning in museums in England has provided a detailed case study. Three national evaluation studies were carried out between 2003 and 2006 based on the conceptual framework of Generic Learning Outcomes. Using this revealing data Museums and Education reveals the power of museum pedagogy and as it does, questions are raised about traditional museum culture and the potential and challenge for museum futures is suggested.

Learning Conversations in Museums

Learning Conversations in Museums
Author: Gaea Leinhardt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2003-01-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135640386

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 specialists in museum educ. This book fits nicely into a small but rapidly expanding market.

In Principle, In Practice

In Principle, In Practice
Author: John H. Falk
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2007-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0759113793

The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future research, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between research and practice in the museum community.

The Educational Role of the Museum

The Educational Role of the Museum
Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415198264

Grounded in the strengths of its first edition, this book has been restructured to include new papers and recent articles, and presents front-running theory and practice as it addresses the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences.

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
Author: John H Falk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315427044

Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors’ needs.

Teaching History with Museums

Teaching History with Museums
Author: Alan S. Marcus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136487182

Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the classroom. Using engaging cases to illustrate accomplished history teaching through museum visits, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and museum educators with ideas for successful visits to artifact and display-based museums, historic forts, living history museums, memorials, monuments, and other heritage sites. Each case is constructed to be adapted and tailored in ways that will be applicable to any classroom and encourage students to think deeply about museums as historical accounts and interpretations to be examined, questioned, and discussed.