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Are you, your colleagues, or your students working on a research project
related to education, interpretation, or professional training and
development in a science centre, museum, or art gallery?

We are now compiling a list of such projects for the AUGUST issue of
Museum Education Monitor (MEM). If you would like your project to be
included, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that summarizes:

- name of project
- research question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- principal researchers
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]

Deadline for submissions for this issue is Friday, August 13, 2004.

Our goal is to connect existing researchers with one another and
encourage others to undertake their own investigations. The information
will be shared initially with subscribers to Museum Education Monitor,
but may be circulated more widely in the future when past issues of MEM
are available for download on the website.

Projects listed in the June 2004 issue of MEM include: staff- and
volunteer-directed research within museums and galleries, academic
research by faculty and doctoral candidates, and work by independent
scholars and consultants. Ongoing investigations listed in June MEM:

- Science Shows: Evaluating and Maximising Their Effectiveness for
Science Communication (Australia)
- Connecting Schools and Regional Galleries (Australia)
- Children as Creative, Social Beings Research Project (Australia)
- Learning through interaction with Science Centre exhibits (Australia)
- Utilisation and effectiveness of audience research for museums and
exhibiting institutions in the context of museum management - an
international comparative study (Australia)
- How to incorporate and interpret oral history material in exhibition
context and educational material (Canada)
 - Evaluation of Grade Five Program at The Art Gallery of Peterborough
(Canada)
- Engagement and reflections at science centres - a study of upper
secondary students (Denmark)
- School-Museum Cooperation for Improving the Teaching and Learning of
Sciences (European Union)
- Can museums offer a valuable response to the primary school
Citizenship curriculum?  A case study at Haslemere Educational Museum
(UK)
- How multicultural societies are represented in museums (particularly
in terms of interpretation) and how those communities are addressed - or
not - as an audience (UK)
- Visitors' understandings of dioramas (UK)
- London Museums Hub - 3 Projects (UK): (1)Black History month assembly
project- outreach to secondary schools in  deprived areas of London:
Museum of London; (2) Citizenship & Environment project: Global and
Local Environmental  issues, KS 2 & KS3: Horniman Museum;  (3) Gifted &
Talented programme: Science at KS3, schools in deprived areas of London:
London's Transport Museum.
- The Outdoor Classroom in a Rural Context (UK)
- Extending Learning from Field Trips: Developing Materials to Meet
Teachers' Needs (UK)
- Explainer-Student interaction in the Investigate Gallery, The Natural
History Museum (UK)
- The Role of Museums in the On-Going Professional Development of
Teachers (UK)
- Communicating Science Through Novel Exhibits and Exhibitions (UK)
- Enhancing interpretation: new techniques and technologies for fine and
decorative art museums (UK)
- Designing exhibits to support children's interactions (UK)
- Discussion and programs at informal institutions (UK)
- Evaluation of Education Programs, University Circle Inc., Cleveland
(US)
- Graduate dissertation work on large format films (US)
- Standards and Best Practices for Historic Interpretation and Public
Education at National Trust Historic Sites (US)
- A Museum-School District Partnership to Promote Learning by Design
(USA)
- Go Inside and Greet the Light: Assessing the Visitor Experience in a
Contemporary Art Exhibition (US)
- Out-of-School (Informal) Science Teaching Training for Elementary
Teacher-Education Students (US)

To receive a complimentary copy of the June issue of MEM, please contact
the editor at the address below.

M. Christine Castle, Ph.D.
Editor, Museum Education Monitor
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