Learning Conversations In Museums

Author : Gaea Leinhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135640378
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Conversations in Museums written by Gaea Leinhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do not come to museums to talk, but they often do talk. This talk can drift from discussions of managing the visit, to remembrances of family members and friends not present, to close analyses of particular objects or displays. This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment that has been purposefully constructed by an almost invisible community of designers, planners, and educators. Fitting nicely into a small but rapidly expanding market, this book presents: *one of the first theoretically grounded set of studies on museum learning; *an explicit presentation of innovative and rich methodologies on learning in museums; *information on a variety of museums and subject matter; *a study on exhibitions, ranging from art to science content; *authors from the museum and the academic world; *a range of methods--from the analysis of diaries written to record museum visits, to studies of preservice teachers using pre- and post-museum visit tests; *an examination of visitors ranging from age 4-75 years of age, and from known and unknown sample populations; and *a lens that examines museum visits in a fine grained (1 second) or big picture (week, year long) way.

Author : Gaea Leinhardt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104426
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening in on Museum Conversations written by Gaea Leinhardt and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that learning takes place in museums but what does that really mean? Who learns what and how do they learn it? Gaea Leinhardt and Karen Knutson set out to investigate these questions through the conversations of museum visitors. The model they developed from their research owes much to sociocultural theory, and they challenge others to think about certain specific features of the museum experience in order to understand and define learning. They advocate an expanded concept of learning for museums, and for more formal schooling environments. Leinhardt and Knutson add their voices to what they call the extended conversation that is ongoing among thoughtful practitioners with an interest in formal and informal learning in museums. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : David Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1591587700
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Conversations written by David Carr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural institutions must reimagine their roles as education facilities for their communities and address the public need for conversations in safe and fair places, thereby renewing their essential place in democratic society. This book explains how. Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums is a provocative book, one that is designed to offer courage to cultural institution administrators and staff even as it opens their eyes to the possibility that their facilities can offer more than they are. Rather than offering prescriptive answers, the author invites readers to consider museums and libraries in fresh ways. Author David Carr believes professionals in libraries and museums need to think more broadly. He challenges them to address communities, national social change, psychology, and learning, and to think about ways to frame their institutions, not as repositories or research chambers, but as instruments for human thinking. Now is the time for these institutions to recover their integrity and purpose as fundamental, informing structures in a struggling democracy. Based on lectures and previously published writings by the author, and drawing on new scholarship and research, the essays here will inspire professionals to understand their collections and institutions as instruments of personal, social, and cultural change.

Author : John H. Falk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276002
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning from Museums written by John H. Falk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition ofJohn H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking’s ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and those they would like to serve). This new edition offers an updated and synthesized version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as the latest advances in free-choice learning research, theory and practice, in order to provide readers a highly readable and informative understanding of the personal, sociocultural and physical dimensions of the museum experience. Falk and Dierking also fill in gaps in the 1st edition. Falk’s research focuses increasingly on the self-related needs that museums meet, and these findings enhance the personal context chapter. Dierking’s work delves deeply into the macro-sociocultural dimensions of learning, a topic not discussed in the sociocultural chapter in the first edition. Emphasizing the importance of time (and space), the second edition adds an entirely new chapter to describe the important dimension of time. They also insert findings from the burgeoning field of neuroscience. Latter chapters of the book discuss the evolving role of museums in the rapidly changing Information /Learning Society of the 21st century. New examples and suggestions highlight the ways that the new understandings of learning can help museum practitioners reinvent how museums can and should support the public’s lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning.

Author : Scott G. Paris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135645280
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums written by Scott G. Paris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Jill Hohenstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317445945
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Learning written by Jill Hohenstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As museums are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only their cultural, but also their educational and social significance, the means to understand how museum visitors learn becomes ever more important. And yet, learning can be conceptualised and investigated in many ways. Coming to terms with how theories about learning interact with one another and how they relate to ‘evidence-based learning’ can be confusing at best. Museum Learning attempts to make sense of multiple learning theories whilst focusing on a set of core learning topics in museums. Importantly, learning is considered not just as a cognitive characteristic, as some perspectives propose, but also as affective, taking into consideration interests, attitudes, and emotions; and as a social practice situated in cultural contexts. This book draws attention to the development of theory and its practical applications in museum situations such as aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens and historical re-enactment sites, among others. This volume will be of interest to museum studies students, practitioners and researchers working in informal learning contexts, and will help them to reflect on what it means to learn in museums and create more effective environments for learning.

Author : Karen Knutson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351114018
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art Learning and Creativity written by Karen Knutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores learning in the arts and highlights ways in which art and creativity can ignite learning in schools, informal learning spaces, and higher education. The focus is on learning in, with, and through the arts. Written from a range of international perspectives, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art Learning and Creativity draws upon the fields of cognitive science, art education, technology and digital arts; the learning sciences; and museum studies to explore the theoretical underpinnings of artistic creativity and inspiration, and provide empirical explorations of mechanisms that support learning in the arts. Critical factors that help to facilitate the creative process are considered, and chapters highlight connections between research and practice in art learning. This volume offers a rich variety of positions and projects which underpin creativity in schools, museums, and other venues. An illustrative text for researchers and educators in the arts, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art Learning and Creativity demonstrates how artistic ways of thinking and working with artists empower art learners and support their needs and opportunities across the lifespan.

Author : John H Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315417839
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum Experience Revisited written by John H Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential reference, incorporating advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years. Written in clear, non-technical style, The Museum Experience Revisited paints a thorough picture of why people go to museums, what they do there, how they learn, and what museum practitioners can do to enhance these experiences.

Author : Leanne Turvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849764735
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Site of Conversation written by Leanne Turvey and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does a Learning programme in an art museum afford to those who engage with it? And what is particular about the invitation to an artist to work within this context? In Site of Conversation focuses on the discursive and experimental space offered to students and teachers by being in conversation with artists and alongside art in a museum today."--back cover.

Author : Simon Knell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134066252
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Revolutions written by Simon Knell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them. Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and are changed. The authors span over 200 years discussing national museums, ecomuseums, society museums, provincial galleries, colonial museums, the showman’s museum, and science centres. Topics covered include: disciplinary practices, ethnic representation, postcolonial politics, economic aspiration, social reform, indigenous models, conceptions of history, urban regeneration, sustainability, sacred objects, a sense of place, globalization, identities, social responsibility, controversy, repatriation, human remains, drama, learning and education. Capturing the richness of the museum studies discipline, Museum Revolutions is the ideal text for museum studies courses, providing a wide range of interlinked themes and the latest thought and research from experts in the field. It is invaluable for those students and museum professionals who want to understand the past, present and future of the museum.