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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Museum educators"”.
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The Leadership Practice of Museum Educators
… conditions and competencies of a set of six museum educators from a large city in the United States. Participants were education department leaders from a variety of museum types, including: A science museum, an ethnic arts museum, a settlement house museum, a children‘s museum, an aquarium, …
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Examining Holocaust education museum-initiated professional development: The perspective of museum educators during planning and implementation
Museums today frequently consider education as one of their priorities. As such, museum administrators will provide resources, field trips, or professional development opportunities to support teachers and schools. In an era of high-stakes testing, museums, like schools, are also influenced by …
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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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A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum
… of experiential education in American history museums from 1787 to 2007. Because of a decline in attendance, museum educators need to identify best practices to draw and retain audiences. I used 16 museology and history journals, books, and archives of museums prominent for using the method. I …
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The Artists' Oral History Project
… can contribute to the visitor’s experience of museum exhibitions. Oral history can be a powerful tool to tell a story about the motivations, inspirations and process of creating art. These stories can give museum visitors an access point to gain a deeper understanding of art pieces and …
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The typologies of cognitive dissonance and the self-guided adult visitor : assessing interpretive aids in a fine arts museum
… when self-guided visitors confront art works in museums which do not agree with their previously held cognitions. As a result, visitors can experience frustration and anxiety because they are unable to find immediate sources through which they can resolve their dissonances. Recently, there has …
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The art of medicine : a narrative case study of an art museum workshop series for first-year medical students
… of a repeat-visit workshop at the Blanton Museum of Art for first-year students of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. The workshop aims to nurture students’ skills in visual literacy, self-care, and empathetic communication so that they are better prepared in …
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Your Brain on Art: Art Therapy in a Museum Setting and its Potential at the Rubin Musuem of Art
… programs could open the doors of the museum to another population of visitors with disabilities, particularly those suffering from mental illness and in need of healing and wellness. The above statement serves as the core of this thesis with the ultimate goal to analyze and research …
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DESIGNING A CURRICULUM FOR DIFFICULT HISTORY: TEACHERS, MUSEUM WORKERS, AND WAR PHOTOJOURNALISM
… researchers have emphasized the importance of museum spaces as sites of learning and engagement for their ability to supplement and enhance the school curriculum. These individuals often describing the importance of museums in relation to a set of progressive educational ideals such as the …
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Computer-Mediated Communication Of History Museums In The Midwestern United States: A Web Content Analysis
<p>Adult museumgoers have come to expect increased access to museum information and resources through computer-mediated communication (CMC). Current research suggests that museum websites can increase the desire to visit the museum physically. The purpose of this study is to investigate how small, …
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Integrating the Arts and Sciences in the Museum Setting
… Concerned about this phenomenon, many art educators are working to integrate the arts into STEM education through a variety of arts integration efforts. Arts integration not only helps to preserve a place for the arts in the curriculum, it also has been shown to enhance STEM learning.</p> …
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Teamwork makes the artwork : a qualitative case study examining how adult museum visitors experience aesthetic development through visual-thinking strategies (VTS) at a contemporary art museum.
Meaningful engagement is a challenge for museums today. Some museums continue with a passive experience of allowing visitors to look at the artwork with no other type of engagement during the visit. On average, visitors spend less than 30 seconds looking at a work of art and reading the label …
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Social Media and Critical Digital Museum Pedagogy: A Multicase Study of Institutions in Alberta
… media have been a topic of discussion in the museum sector for nearly 4 decades (Crow & Din, 2010). Recently, however, widespread institutional closures prompted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a rapid transformation in how and why museums engage with social media. A …
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The collaboration conundrum: Negotiating educator priorities in an intensive museum-school partnership
Increasingly, fine arts museums and K-12 schools seek to work together in more substantive ways than the traditional one-time field trip. Museum-school partnerships afford the opportunity to work across institutional borders to create unique learning experiences for students, but they also present …