Social interaction and learning among family groups visiting a museum

Blud, Linda

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“…Many visitor attractions are designed for families (DeVault 2000), for example zoos (Hallman, Mary, and Benbow 2007;Mowen and Graefe 2006;Turley 2001), theme parks (Johns and Gyimothy 2002) and museums (Blud 1990;Sterry and Beaumont 2006;Wu, Holmes, and Tribe 2010). However, relatively little is known about the social experiences and benefits gained by visitors at these attractions.…”

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Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

Fountain

Schänzel

Stewart

et al. 2015

Annals of Leisure Research

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Studies of family leisure and holidays reveal that an important goal of these experiences is the fostering of family togetherness and social connectedness away from usual work/life pressures. As outlined by Schänzel and Smith (2014), however, family experiences of leisure include opportunities for both 'family time' and 'own time'. Family time incorporates opportunities for strengthening family bonds by creating family memories and allowing learning to occur. By contrast, own time encapsulates freedom from those family commitments to pursue one's own interests and to seek respite from the obligatory commitments of family life. Using data collected in face-to-face questionnaires completed with 221 New Zealand family groups, this paper seeks to explore the extent to which family time and own time experiences are differently perceived by parents accompanying their children to three family-friendly visitor attractions in Christchurch, New Zealand. In particular, the paper explores the motivations and experiences sought by fathers visiting with their child/ren at these attractions and compares these with mothers' experiences and motivations. Findings show that fathers have differing motivations and seek different experiences than mothers at these attractions, and that these motivations vary based on whether they are attending visitor attractions as sole parents or accompanied by a co-parent.

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Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

Fountain

Schänzel

Stewart

et al. 2015

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…In the past two decades, a growing body of research has emerged looking beyond visitor recall to other cognitive, affective and/or behavioral outcomes of museum experiences, for example, Allard et al (1994); Allen (1997); Anderson et al (2000); Blud (1990) ;Cartmill & Day (1997);D"Agostino et al (1992); White & Jacobson (1994);Falk (1997); Finson & Enochs (1987); Henriksen (2001); Hernandez & Celis Herrero (1993); Stevens & Hall (1997); Stevenson (1991);and Zeidler & Surber (1999). Most of these studies focus on one or at most two of the three domains of interest, and often using a fairly targeted range of indicators, often (and rightly so) related to organizational objectives and/or the particular interests of the researcher.…”

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An Assessment of the Outcomes of a Chinese-Language Interpretive Tour Experience at a Heritage Tourism Attraction

Dijk¹,

Weiler²

2009

Tourism Analysis

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Accepted on 07/10/2008 for Tourism Analysis (volume and issue TBD) AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank Dr Xin Yu and Andrea Zhang for assistance with translation and back-translation of the instrument. Andrea was also the main research assistant for data collection and her dedication and good humour were crucial in gaining a high rate of response from visitors. We also thank Leah Stamm for her help with data entry and analysis and Annita Based on results from 285 self-completed surveys, the instrument reliably assessed that visitors" perceptions of their interpretive experience were average to very good on cognitive, affective and behavioral constructs. Notwithstanding the fact that work still needs to continue in refining one of the ten indicators, the instrument provides practitioners and researchers with a reliable and valid tool for assessing the outcomes of heritage interpretation in two very different cultural contexts.

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“…Likewise, within the field of science education, there has been an increasing emphasis on the role and significance of language in the learning of science (Lemke, 1990;Sutton, 1995;Wellington and Osborne, 2001). The importance of "social influences" for visitors' experience of exhibits had been noticed by behavioral researchers (Bitgood, 1993), sociolinguists and others (Blud, 1990;McManus, 1988McManus, , 1994. However, only the emergence of sociocultural theory occasioned a larger-scale turn in visitor studies towards studies of social interaction in museums.…”

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Interaction and interactives: collaboration and participation with computer-based exhibits

Heath

Lehn²,

Osborne

2005

Public Underst Sci

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NutzungsbedingungenIt is increasingly recognized that social interaction and collaboration are critical to our experience of museums and galleries. Curators, museum managers and designers are exploring ways of enhancing interaction and in particular using tools and technologies to create new forms of participation, with and around, exhibits. It is found, however, that these new tools and technologies, whilst enhancing "interactivity," can do so at the cost of social interaction and collaboration, inadvertently impoverishing co-participation, and cooperation. In this paper we address some of the issues and difficulties that arise in designing for "interactivity" and in particular point to the complex and highly contingent forms of social interaction which arise with, and around, exhibits. The paper is based on a series of video-based field studies of conduct and interaction in various museums and galleries in London and elsewhere including the Science Museum and Explore@ Bristol. IntroductionIn recent years, science centers and museums in the UK have received substantial funds from the government and other institutions to renew, replace and redevelop existing science exhibitions and to create new science centers. These exhibitions are being developed to kindle people's interest, and facilitate new forms of participation, in science, and often attempt to communicate science in novel ways to the public. They display a large number of computer-based exhibits. The managers and designers of the exhibitions presume that "interactives" can increase the time visitors spend with exhibits, facilitate social interaction and collaboration between visitors, and enhance the exhibition's ability to communicate science to the public.A growing number of studies have begun to assess the effectiveness of computer-based exhibits in science exhibitions -which, in this paper, we refer to as "interactives." However, we still have little understanding of how the visitors examine and make sense of interactives. This paper draws on field observation and video-recording undertaken as part of a small research project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Data collection was carried out in a number of new science exhibitions in the UK, amongst them the Wellcome Wing (Science Museum, London), Explore-At-Bristol and Green's Mill (Nottingham). These exhibitions include a SAGE PUBLICATIONS (www.sagepublications.com)

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Social interaction and learning among family groups visiting a museum

Abstract: To cite this article: Linda M. Blud (1990) Social interaction and learning among family groups visiting a museum, Museum Management and Curatorship, 9:1,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] To link to this article: http://dx.

Cited by 74 publications

References 10 publications

Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’

An Assessment of the Outcomes of a Chinese-Language Interpretive Tour Experience at a Heritage Tourism Attraction

Interaction and interactives: collaboration and participation with computer-based exhibits

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