Museums and Education: Connecting the Elements of Education to Science and Children's Museums
Bane, Samantha
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2008-09-12
Abstract
Museums are informal environments that incorporate various elements of learning, such as: the learner environment, learners and learning, curriculum and teaching strategies, and
assessment. This paper focuses on these elements that are apparent in children's
museums and science museums. Important aspects of these topics that are discussed
include: participation, agency, mediation, collaborative learning, novelty of resources,
community connections, partnerships between museum and researcher, the use of
background knowledge, motivation, interest, inquiry, the zone of proximal development,
discourse, and play. There are also implications to be considered from understanding
these elements of the informal museum setting, and how they relate to and affect the
formal classroom setting.
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