Negotiated agendas: families in science and technology museums

Moussouri, Theano

doi:10.1504/ijtm.2003.003114

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“…Among families in which caregivers had more formal education, group interactions focused on knowledge acquisition, concepts were “taught” or facilitated by a more knowledgeable individual (usually a parent), and learning unfolded unidirectionally. This resembled interactions documented in studies of families visiting museums (e.g., Briseño‐Garzón, Anderson, & Anderson, ; Moussouri, ) and the learning arrangements in schools.…”

Section: Evaluating Specific Projectssupporting

confidence: 57%

Equity and Evaluation in Informal STEM Education

Garibay

Teasdale

2019

New Drctns Evaluation

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Informal STEM education institutions seek to engage broader cross sections of their communities to address inequities in STEM participation and remain relevant in a multicultural society. In this chapter, we advance the role that evaluation can play in helping the field adopt more inclusive practices and achieve greater equity than at present through evaluation that addresses sociopolitical contexts and reflects the perspectives and values of non‐dominant communities. To do this for specific projects, we argue that evaluation should privilege the voices and lived experiences of non‐dominant communities, engage communities in identifying desired outcomes, and ensure multicultural validity of instruments, measures, and inferences. At the field‐wide level, we urge evaluators to examine conceptualizations of “broadening participation in STEM,” evaluate community‐based partnerships, and address replication and scaling. Ultimately, these actions can lead to greater equity in evaluation and in informal STEM education.

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Section: Evaluating Specific Projectssupporting

confidence: 57%

Equity and Evaluation in Informal STEM Education

Garibay

Teasdale

2019

New Drctns Evaluation

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“…The social interactive function of museums has been valued by visitors and museum staff in Western cultural contexts (Falk and Storkdieck ; McManus ; Moussouri ). Museums as a public forum can trigger conversations among individuals.…”

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“…Understanding why visiting behavior and visiting outcomes differ from one visitor to another obliges us to look at questions that relate to visitors' personal identities and their sociocultural backgrounds. Numerous studies have concluded that visit motivation, as a predominant factor, plays a decisive role in influencing the museum visitation and learning outcomes (see Falk, Moussouri, and Colson ; Falk and Storksdieck ; Moussouri ; Packer and Ballantyne ).…”

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Chinese Family Groups' Museum Visit Motivations: A Comparative Study of Beijing and Vancouver

Ji¹,

Anderson²,

Wu³

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This comparative study explored Chinese family groups' dominant visit motivations in science museums and aquariums in order to understand the perceptions of these audiences, who are an underrepresented cultural demographic in the literature. In this study, 503 Chinese participants-131 in the China Science and Technology Museum, Beijing; 127 in the Beijing Aquarium, Beijing; 136 in Science World British Columbia, Vancouver; and 109 in the Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver-completed a Family Group Visit Motivation Questionnaire. The results report four dominant visit motivations for these Chinese family groups. Significant differences in a fifth motivation, social interaction, were detected in comparing the Beijing and Vancouver Chinese family samples. Also, Chinese family groups were more likely to perceive science museums to be settings that can satisfy their educational and personal interest needs, compared to aquariums. This study provides insights for science museums and aquarium practitioners to better understand this audience demographic.

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“…According to the literature, a core ingredient of the visit experience is the family's own agenda about what the visit will hold, which incorporates prior knowledge and cultural itineraries. The visit experience itself is viewed as the result of the interaction between the family agenda on the one hand and the museum agenda on the other, constructed via a process of negotiation (Moussouri 2003(Moussouri , 2007. Discovering how this process unfolds during the visit and whether it is possible to identify relationships or indeed describe the underlying generating process in a principled manner is one of the main questions considered.…”

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Conducting Visitor Studies Using Smartphone-Based Location Sensing

Moussouri

Roussos

2015

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Visitor studies explore human experiences within museums, cultural heritage sites and other informal learning settings to inform decisions. Smartphones offer novel opportunities for extending the depth and breadth of visitor studies while considerably reducing their cost and their demands on specialist human resources. By enabling the collection of significantly higher volumes of data they also make possible the application of advanced machine learning and visualization techniques potentially leading to the discovery of new patterns and behaviors that cannot be captured by simple descriptive statistics. In this paper we present a principled approach to the use of smartphones for visitor studies in particular proposing a structured methodology and associated methods that enable its effective use in this context. We discuss specific methodological considerations that have to be addressed for effective data collection, pre-processing and analysis, and identify the limitations in the applicability of these tools using family visits to the London Zoo as a case study. We conclude with a discussion of the wider opportunities afforded by the introduction of smartphones and related technologies and outline the steps towards establishing them as a standard tool for visitor studies.

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Negotiated agendas: families in science and technology museums

Cited by 24 publications

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Equity and Evaluation in Informal STEM Education

Equity and Evaluation in Informal STEM Education

Chinese Family Groups' Museum Visit Motivations: A Comparative Study of Beijing and Vancouver

Conducting Visitor Studies Using Smartphone-Based Location Sensing

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