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1 online resource (476 pages) |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; PART I: CONVERSATIONS: A YEAR OF LEARNING; Chapter 1: Creating a Space for Learning: Curators, Educators, and the Implied Audience; Chapter 2: Two Docents in Three Museums: Central and Peripheral Participation; Chapter 3: Museums in Family Life: An Ethnographic Case Study; Chapter 4: Talking to Oneself: Diaries of Museum Visits; PART II: CONVERSATIONS: AN AFTERNOON OF LEARNING; Chapter 5: Burning Buses, Burning Crosses: Student Teachers See Civil Rights |
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Chapter 6: Looking Through the Glass: Reflections of Identity in Conversations at a History MuseumChapter 7: Voices and Images: Making Connections Between Identity and Art; Chapter 8: Looking for Learning in Visitor Talk: A Methodological Exploration; Chapter 9: Conversations Across Time: Family Learning in a Living History Museum; PART III: CONVERSATIONS: A MOMENT OF LEARNING; Chapter 10: Building Islands of Expertise in Everyday Family Activity; Chapter 11: Negotiations of Thematic Conversations About Biology; Chapter 12: Finding Self in Objects: Identity Exploration in Museums |
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Chapter 13: Supporting Science Learning in MuseumsAuthor Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
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 h |
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Print version record |
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Museums -- Educational aspects.
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Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
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Museum visitors -- Education
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Museum techniques -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Museums -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Non-formal education.
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Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
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Museum techniques -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Museums -- Educational aspects
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Museums -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Non-formal education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crowley, Kevin
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Knutson, Karen
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| ISBN |
9781410606624 |
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1410606627 |
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