The educational role of the museum
- Title
- The educational role of the museum / edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.
- Published by
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Supplementary content
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xvi, 346 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series statement
- Leicester readers in museum studies
- Uniform title
- Leicester readers in museum studies.
- Subject
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.