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Title: Learning conversations in museums / edited by Gaea Leinhardt, Kevin Crowley, Karen Knutson.
Author: Leinhardt, Gaea.
Crowley, Kevin.
Knutson, Karen, 1969-

General Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creating a space for learning : curators, educators, and the implied audience / Karen Knutson -- Two docents in three museums : central and peripheral participation / Mary Abu-Shumays and Gaea Leinhardt -- Museums in family life : an ethnographic case study / Kirsten M. Ellenbogen -- Talking to oneself : diaries of museum visits / Gaea Leinhardt, Carol Tittle, and Karen Knutson -- Burning buses, burning crosses : student teachers see civil rights / Gaea Leinhardt and Sr. Madeleine Gregg -- Looking through the glass : reflections of identity in conversations at a history museum / Joyce Fienberg and Gaea Leinhardt -- Voices and images : making connections between identity and art / Catherine Stainton -- Looking for learning in visitor talk : a methodological exploration / Sue Allen -- Conversations across time : family learning in a living history museum / Ellen Rosenthal and Jane Blankman-Hetrick -- Building islands of expertise in everyday family activity / Kevin Crowley and Melanie Jacobs -- Negotiations of thematic conversations about biology / Doris Ash -- Finding self in objects : identity exploration in museums / Soctt G. Paris and Melissa J. Mercer -- Supporting science learning in museums / Leona Schauble ... [et al.].

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum,
Publication Place: Mahwah, N.J. :
ISBN: 0805840524 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780805840520 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subject: Museums -- Educational aspects.
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects.
Museum visitors -- Education.
Museum techniques -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Museums -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Non-formal education.
Musâees -- Aspect âeducatif.
Objets exposâes -- Aspect social.
Visiteurs de musâee -- âEducation.
Musâeologie -- âEtude et enseignement (Supâerieur)
Musâees -- âEtude et enseignement (Supâerieur)
âEducation non-formelle.
Museumdidactiek.
Musea.
Leerprocessen.
Informeel onderwijs.
Bezoekers.
Museus (educaًcنao)
Museus de ciمencia e tecnologia.
Museologia (estudo e ensino)
Educaًcنao informal.
âEducation musâeale.
Aspect social.
Objet exposâe
Aspect pâedagogique.
Musâee.
Visiteur.
Musâeologie.

Contents: Creating a space for learning : curators, educators, and the implied audience / Karen Knutson -- Two docents in three museums : central and peripheral participation / Mary Abu-Shumays and Gaea Leinhardt -- Museums in family life : an ethnographic case study / Kirsten M. Ellenbogen -- Talking to oneself : diaries of museum visits / Gaea Leinhardt, Carol Tittle, and Karen Knutson -- Burning buses, burning crosses : student teachers see civil rights / Gaea Leinhardt and Sr. Madeleine Gregg -- Looking through the glass : reflections of identity in conversations at a history museum / Joyce Fienberg and Gaea Leinhardt -- Voices and images : making connections between identity and art / Catherine Stainton -- Looking for learning in visitor talk : a methodological exploration / Sue Allen -- Conversations across time : family learning in a living history museum / Ellen Rosenthal and Jane Blankman-Hetrick -- Building islands of expertise in everyday family activity / Kevin Crowley and Melanie Jacobs -- Negotiations of thematic conversations about biology / Doris Ash -- Finding self in objects : identity exploration in museums / Soctt G. Paris and Melissa J. Mercer -- Supporting science learning in museums / Leona Schauble ... [et al.].
Physical Description: xiii, 461 p. : ill., maps ;
Electronic Location: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002024253.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2002024253-d.html

Publication Date: 2002.

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