Cooperation, Collaboration, Challenge: How to Work with the Changing Nature of Educational Audiences in Museums

Kelly, Lynda; Fitzgerald, Pauline

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“…Furthermore, by engaging with children and young people from a variety of different cultural backgrounds, as portrayed by Kelly and Fitzgerald (2011) who reported upon work with Pacific Island students from the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools (Mockler and Groundwater-Smith 2011), it is possible to broaden and enrich the museum learning experience. Stein et al (2008, p. 181) ask the question "How might visitor studies and audience-or community based research support museums in becoming more valuable, relevant and accessible to immigrant communities?"…”

Section: The Role Of Cultural Institutions Beyond the School And Why mentioning

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Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Mockler

Groundwater‐Smith

2015

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Section: The Role Of Cultural Institutions Beyond the School And Why mentioning

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Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Mockler

Groundwater‐Smith

2015

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“…I will outline how a sensory approach enables us to differentiate between and categorize pedagogical settings in museums according to the different sensorial belief systems they represent and thus see how they afford different conditions for learning. The point of departure in this article is that digitally accustomed teenagers do not simply bring with them expectations of two-way and participatory modes of learning that challenge museums' one-to-many relationship with their audiences (Kelly and Fitzgerald 2011). Rather, they also bring with them sensory skills and ways of knowing, forged through everyday habitual digital practices that have implications for how they make sense of and inhabit the exhibits.…”

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Teenagers' Multisensory Routes for Learning in the Museum

Fors¹

2013

The Senses and Society

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a a Vaike Fors has researched museums and teenagers' encounters with museum and science center exhibits in various projects in order to contribute to further understandings of contemporary conditions for learning.ABSTRACT In this article I draw on a study of sensory aspects of teenagers' use of digital media, how these sensory aspects are incorporated in emerging learning strategies, and the implications of this for the same teenagers' engagement in museums. My focus is on how an ethnographic approach that attends to the senses may enable a critical review of prevailing pedagogical ideas in museums. Recent developments in museum education have led to large investments in state-of-the-art technology to produce interactive, multisensory exhibits. However, the question of how teenagers respond to these campaigns remains rather

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“…The project was finalized to the realization of experiential educational paths dedicated to the orientation to the scientific method and culture. Starting from the historical-scientific and naturalistic heritage of the Museums of the Network, the primary objective of these paths was to promote, among the students of the IV and V High School classes, interest in scientific culture that still suffers not only in our Country but worldwide (Online available from http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-o verview.pdf) [8]. The still deficient diffusion of scientific culture has significant effects on the orientation of High School students towards their succeeding higher education as well as other essential life choices and the number of graduates in scientific disciplines, with respect to the whole of graduates, is decreasing.…”

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Educating to the Scientific Method and Culture in the Italian University Museums

Corradini¹

2020

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The first Italian University Museums Network, constituted in 2012 for a first project, coordinated by Modena and Reggio Emilia, in 2015 started a second project, approved and financed by the Ministry of the University and Research (Online available from http://www.pomui.unimore.it), dedicated to orient the students to the scientific method and culture. The primary objective was to promote, starting from the historical-scientific and naturalistic heritage of the Network, among the students of the IV and V High School classes, the interest in scientific culture that still suffers not only in our country but worldwide. The Museums of the Network decided not only to propose to look at their scientific instruments and naturalistic specimens or to observe the reproduction of some natural phenomena, but with a hands-on approach for raising awareness, to provide to the students the tools in order to understand the cultural context in which the scientific instruments have been invented or realized, the specimens collected, the phenomena observed for the first time. The museums realized 56 experiential educational paths through the individuation and the sharing of operative methods, the adoption and the use of common languages and tools, with specific attention to the information technologies. These paths are dedicated to three principal themes, biodiversity, color and time, and seven subthemes and are published in the Network web portal (Online available from http://www.retemuseiuniversitari.unimore.it). After this experience, an University Museums Observatory will be useful to help the University Museums to become privileged places of the science communication, laboratories of participation, observatories on the past, present and future and able to promote and develop students' interests and skills for the scientific culture.

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Cooperation, Collaboration, Challenge: How to Work with the Changing Nature of Educational Audiences in Museums

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Teenagers' Multisensory Routes for Learning in the Museum

Educating to the Scientific Method and Culture in the Italian University Museums

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