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January 18, 2006
Dear colleague,
Doing research related to the practice of museum education or
interpretation? Here's an opportunity to share it with a broad
international community of museum educators!
We at MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM) are currently compiling a list of
research projects undertaken by both practitioners and academics for the
FEBRUARY 2006 issue. If you would like yours 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, February 10, 2005.*
All listings are, of course, free of charge. Submissions will be listed
in MEM and catalogued in our Archives afterwards. Full access to the MEM
Archives is available only to subscribers. However, time-limited guest
passes are now available to students and other researchers at the
discretion of the editor [log in to unmask]
Projects listed in the most recent issue of MEM (DECEMBER 2005) include:
- Linking the Learning Communities Pilot Program (Australia)
- Interpretive Methodology in Egyptian Museums (Egypt & USA)
- Evaluation of the exhibition “Waste – Facets from the Stone Ages to
Nowadays” [Evaluation der Ausstellung: “Müll – Facetten von der
Steinzeit bis zum Gelben Sack”] (Germany)
- Evaluation and visitor study on two different exhibitions: (1) “Günter
Grass’ Original lithographs: Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales seen
by Günter Grass” and (2) "Drawn Against Times: Flowers and Different
Still Lives by Horst Janssen“.(Germany)
- Plants - what do people know? (UK)
- ESOL & Museum Learning (UK)
- Moving museum education online: An investigation on the efficacy of
inquiry-based learning in informal history education programs on the
World Wide Web (USA)
- Museum Skills for Teens: Seven Case Studies of Internship Programs and
a Proposed Model Program for the Historic Sites of the Morris County
Park Commission (USA)
- Time Traveling through New Mexico’s History (USA)
- Teacher Professional Development at Informal Science Institutions in
an Era of Science Education Reform (USA)
- Trading Spaces: Museum-Schools As Unique Learning Environments (USA)
- Striking Gold: Mining the Resources of the Crocker Art Museum (USA)
- Family Interpretive Project (USA)
- Learning Theory Applications in the Museum Setting (USA)
- Homeschooling Education Programs @ Museums (USA)
- The Outdoor Living History Museum Interpretation Research Project
(USA)
A complimentary copy of this December 05 issue of MUSEUM EDUCATION
MONITOR is available upon request to the editor [log in to unmask]
For more information about this call or to discuss your research, please
contact me, as below.
Cheers,
Chris
M. Christine Castle, Ph.D.
Editor, Museum Education Monitor
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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For more information about Museum Education Monitor please go to
http://www.mccastle.com/subscribe.asp
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