The educational role of the museum / edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.
This volume represents the most develped position of the state of the field of museum education. It introduces theories that have the potential to move current professional debates into more critical areas. Museum education is analysed broadly and in depth, to include both exhibitions and workshops...
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London ; New York :
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1999.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Leicester readers in museum studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Education, communication and interpretation: towards a critical pedagogy in museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- Communication in theory and practice / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- Learning in art museums: strategies of interpretation / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- The museum as a communicator: a semiotic analysis of the Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Gallery, Perth / Robert Hodge, Wilfred D'Souza
- Museum learners as active postmodernists: contextualizing constructivism / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- The constructivist museum / George E. Hein
- Teaching yourself to teach with objects / John Hennigar Shuh
- Improving worksheets / Gail Durbin
- Open windows, open doors / Jessica Davis, Howard Gardner
- Museum multicultural education for young learners / Joseph H. Suina
- Children, teenagers and adults in museums: a developmental perspective / Nina Jensen
- Museum-goers: life-styles and learning characteristics / Charles F. Gunther
- Whose museum is it anvwav? Museum education and the community / Jocelyn Dodd
- Learning from learning theory in museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- Intrinsic motivation in museums: why does one want to learn? / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kim Hermanson
- Cognitive psychology and interpretation: synthesis and application / Sam H. Ham
- Collaboration: towards a more holistic design process / Hank Grasso, Howard Morrison
- Spatial considerations / Communications Design Team, Royal Ontario Museum
- The exhibition development process / David Dean
- Combating redundancy: writing texts for exhibitions / Margareta Ekarv
- Writing readable text: evaluation of the Ekarv method / Elizabeth Gilmore, Jennifer Sabine
- How old is this text? / James Carter
- Museum text as mediated message / Helen Coxall
- Increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction / Betty Davidson, Candace Lee Heald, George E. Hein
- That those who run may read / Tony Bennett
- Audiences: a curatorial dilemma / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- Cultural imagining among museum visitors / Sharon Macdonald
- The disabling society / Rebecca McGinnis
- Museums and cultural diversity in contemporary Britain / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
- A beginner's guide to evaluation / Phil Bull
- Monitoring and evaluation: the techniques / G. Binks, D. Uzzell
- Small-scale evaluation / Tim Badman
- Evaluation of museum programmes and exhibits / George E. Hein
- Pupils' perceptions of museum education sessions / Marilyn Ingle
- Collaborative evaluation studies between the University of Liverpool and national museums and galleries on Merseyside / Terry Russell
- Sending them home alive / Anita Rui Olds.