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Supporting Learning in Museum Makerspaces: A National Framework
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Wardrip, Peter S.; Brahms, Lisa – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
In recent years, many museums across the country have established or invested resources to implement maker programs or makerspaces for their visitors. These programs and spaces serve a variety of organizational and/or programmatic goals, but fundamentally they serve as sites of learning. Yet, despite these growing efforts, the field knows…
Descriptors: Museums, Shared Resources and Services, Learning, Nonschool Educational Programs
Application and Adaptation of an Institutional Learning Framework
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Foutz, Susan; Emmons, Claire Thoma – Journal of Museum Education, 2017
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has used a mission-aligned learning framework for more than a decade. Designed to foster and support adult-child interaction in exhibitions and programs, the central tool of the family learning framework is the Assessment of Learning Families in Exhibits (ALFIE) Inventory. ALFIE is used as a tool to plan for…
Descriptors: Museums, Learning, Nonschool Educational Programs, Exhibits
What We Do Best: Making the Case for the Museum Learning in Its Own Right
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Garcia, Ben – Journal of Museum Education, 2012
It is time to revisit the way we describe and advocate for the "learning power" of museums. Museum learning is unique, multi-faceted and inspires higher-order affective and cognitive development. Yet, when museums describe their educational impact to stakeholders, it is often described narrowly, using the measures of formal education rather than…
Descriptors: Museums, Learning, Nonschool Educational Programs, Informal Education
What Is Distinctive about Museum Pedagogy and How Can Museums Best Support Learning in Schools? An Action Research Inquiry into the Practice of Three Regional Museums
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Foreman-Peck, Lorraine; Travers, Kate – Educational Action Research, 2013
It seems uncontroversial to claim that museums are unique places of interest with the potential to inspire learners, yet what this means and how it is managed are complex questions. Museum educators' work is currently shaped by accountability requirements typically expressed as visitor targets. Centralised teaching and learning initiatives are…
Descriptors: Museums, Nonschool Educational Programs, Learning, Schools
My Essential Booklist for Museum Educators Wearing Many Hats
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Schatz, Dennis – Journal of Museum Education, 2006
Besides being a content expert, it is critical for today's museum educator to be a marketer, a collaborator, and to understand how people learn best in a museum environment. This article provides a list of six books that the author recommends as essential references for today's museum educator who must wear many hats. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Museums, Books, Nonschool Educational Programs, Competition
Promoting Community-Based Programs for Socialization and Learning. New Directions for Child Development Series, Number 63.
Villarruel, Francisco A., Ed.; Lerner, Richard M., Ed. – 1994
Chapters in this volume describe and analyze distinct types of programs that seek to promote knowledge, competence, and a sense of belonging for diverse youth in environments that permit children's socialization and learning. The following chapters are included: (1) "Development and Context and the Contexts of Learning" (Francisco A. Villarruel…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Education, Community Programs, Computer Uses in Education