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Dale,

Bravo to you and ILI for this question! I think more and more of us should 
use it and explore this aspect of museum visits.

It's time we acknowledge that most adults coming to science museums with 
children have a different visit agenda, or as Zahava Doering put it 
"entering narrative" than adult who come with other adults. Kirsten 
Ellenbogon's dissertation indicates that this type of learning does 
contribute to family identity as science interest and science museum goes. 
Learning how we can better support that type of agenda--exhibits that allow 
more than one user with labels and interactive interfaces that allow/cue 
adult-child collaboration and interaction is a great direction for our 
field. I may still be a little narrow here in direction--but this question 
leads in a very rich direction.

Thanks for posting the question!

Carey

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