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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Museum Education"”.
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Enhancing Motivation Using the Constructs of Flow in Museum Education Activities
While many extol the general value of museum fieldtrips, few can describe the specific parameters needed to make the excursion an educational benefit. Oftentimes, a day at the Museum of Natural History or time spent at the local art gallery is casually put into place with little forethought or …
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Museum Activism and Social Responsibility: Building Museum Education Programs for Juvenile Offenders
<p>Museums are important to their communities and serve many significant purposes to society. The traditional viewpoint of a museum’s function is that they are there to preserve and interpret collections for the sake of facilitating deeper understanding and education for museum audiences. However, …
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Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Impact of Curriculum Support through Museum/Education Partnerships in Rural Communities
<p> Museum education is a dynamic field, and often an underutilized or nonexistent resource in the educational sphere of rural communities. Within the current system of rural K-12 schools, a local museum can serve as both educational enrichment and entertainment/reward. The author’s research …
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Museum education: exploring its value for schoolchildren, teachers and museum professionals. A qualitative study
… and perceptions of three stakeholder groups to museum education: children, teachers and museum professionals. It examines democratised museum education practice as a means of raising public awareness of the relevance and value of museums. It explores the potential for recognising child voice in …
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Science Museum Education: The Effects Of Assessments And Facility Educational Goals On Visitor Perceived-Learning
Most science-oriented facilities include visitor education as a part of their mission statements. How can such institutions create displays that capture and hold a visitor's attention? How can an exhibit stimulate enough interest to make a visitor want to learn more? One very useful tool in …
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Museum education programming for linguistically diverse learners in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex : a qualitative multiple-case study.
Museums' offerings must adapt and broaden to satisfy the demands of its visitors as the number of the population designated as linguistically diverse learners rises. This multiple-case study looked at three museums in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex whose education departments creates …
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Contemporary Art Museum Education in the United States of America and South Africa: A retrospective analysis and proposals for the future
The conditions of tertiary education in South Africa (SA) have recently come under intense public scrutiny. Concerns over the state of higher education in SA reflect global debates, which include those in the United States of America (USA), around institutional accessibility, transformation, and …
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The History and Educational Legacy of the Manchester Art Museum, 1886-1898
… examines the history of the Manchester Art Museum (Manchester, England), which was founded by Thomas Coglan Horsfall (1841-1932) in 1886. It considers the museum’s permanent collections and its programming from 1886 to 1898 with brief notes on the later years of the institution. While, like …
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Meaningful materialism : collectors relationship to their objects
… examined in light of the data. Implications for museum studies and museum education specifically, are considered.
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Developing Children’s Education Materials for the SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport
… project developed as a result of my Summer 2016 museum studies internship with the SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport. This unique museum is located within the airport terminals and is the only airport museum in the United States accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. …
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Lesson Plans Integrating Art with STEAM: Providing Students with Universal Education Experience
… As an alternative to classroom instruction, museum education can be used to not only develop art skills, but can also assimilate those skills into math, science, and engineering. As an intern at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, I developed lesson plans for teachers to use in the …
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Increasing Access in Art Museums: Teen Programming for English Language Learners
… and recent immigrant teens in contemporary art museums through the implementation of participatory programming. This capstone project proposes a teen council program for English Language Learners and recent immigrants at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, and was created with …
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