Research informing the practice of museum educators : : diverse audiences, challenging topics, and reflective praxis /

Research informing the practice of museum educators : : diverse audiences, challenging topics, and reflective praxis / / editors, David Anderson, Alex de Cosson, Lisa McIntosh.

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Museums are institutions of both education and learning in service of society, that is, they are sites where educational experiences are designed and facilitated, and also places where visitors learn in broad and diverse ways. As such, the role of public education in museums today is highly importan...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Anderson, David,
Cosson, Alex de,
McIntosh, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : Sense Publishers,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:First edition 2015.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators: Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section 1: Introduction: Museum Educators Supporting Diverse Audiences: Parents, Teenagers and Family Groups
  • Home Educators’ Views of Museums: Challenges and Opportunities of Supporting Non-Traditional Learning
  • On Our Own: Family Experiences in Art Museums Outside of Facilitated Programming
  • Parents’ Perspectives about Exhibit Label Content in a Science Museum
  • Sparks of Learning: Insights from an After-School Science Museum Program for Teenagers
  • Section 2: Introduction: Museum Educators Practice: Challenging Topics and Unique Audiences
  • Navigating Sensitive Topics with Children: An Inquiry of Museum Educators Facilitating Conversations about Death with Children
  • Children’s Attitudes toward Specimens at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum
  • Museums and Marginalized Historical Narratives: Learning the Truth about Indian Residential Schools at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
  • Training Scientists to Communicate Science to the Public in a Science Museum Setting
  • Identification of Potential Methods of Professional Support for Museum Educators Working with Young Children with Cognitive Disabilities in Museums
  • Section 3: Introduction: Museum Educators’ Praxis: Learning through Ones’ Own Reflexive Research
  • Representing Other: Finding Reflections of Myself from a Space In-Between a Garden and a Museum
  • Using Informal Learning Spaces to Increase Meaning-Making: Museum Visits with Young Adults
  • Embodied Tensions: Digging into Agriculture at the BC Farm Museum
  • Ecologies of Youth Art Apprenticeship: A Case Study of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s Artist Apprenticeship Project
  • Creating Meaningful Experiences in Art Museums: A Study of Museum Educators’ Perceptions of Meaningful Engagement with Works of Art
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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