| Description |
xxi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Museums, lifelong learning and civil society / Gail Dexter Lord -- What is museum-based learning? / Barry Lord -- The potential of museum learning : the essential museum / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- Children and families / Claudia Haas -- New relationships with the formal education sector / Brad King -- Involving the community : the museum as forum for dialogue and learning / Spencer Crew -- The centrality of museum educators : organizing and budgeting for museum learning / Barry Lord -- Space and facilities for museum learning / Heather Maximea -- Interpretive planning and new media for informed museum learning / Hugh Spencer -- Audience-based measures of success: evaluating museum learning / Barbara Soren -- Marketing museum learning / Amy Kaufman -- Multiple points of re-entry : sustaining museum learning / Mira Goldfarb |
| Summary |
"Museum education staff have come to understand that in the final analysis it is the visitor - who comes to the museum experience with long-held expectations, beliefs, and values - who must be the center of their attention; hence the title The Manual of Museum Learning, which puts the focus on the visitor or the user of education programs. Recognizing that museum learning is a vital component of the lifelong learning process that increasingly shapes the development of twenty-first-century individuals, Barry Lord collects a group of experts to offer museums and related institutions (including galleries, zoos, and botanical gardens) practical strategies for creating aesthetic and intellectual experiences with learning opportunities that can inspire visitors throughout a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Contents: pt. I. Why: the rationale for museum learning --1. Museums, lifelong learning, and civil society --2. What is museum-based learning --3. The potential of museum learning: the essential museum. --pt.II. Who: participants in museum learning: --4. Families and children challenging museums --5. New relationships with the formal education sector --6. Involving the community: the museum as forum for dialogue and learning. --pt.III. How: resources for museum learning: --7. The centrality of museum educat |
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Includes index |
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Bibliography: p. 291-295 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Museums -- Educational aspects.
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Museums -- Public relations.
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Museums and schools.
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| Author |
Lord, Barry, 1939-2017.
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| LC no. |
2007003783 |
| ISBN |
9780759109704 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0759109702 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780759109711 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0759109710 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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