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January 8, 2009
Are you currently researching or evaluating any aspect of museum education
or interpretation? Have you recently completed a thesis, dissertation, or
major paper on museum education?
MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly e-newsletter, is compiling lists
of this work for our upcoming January 2009 issue. We welcome listings by
museum workers, consultants, faculty, and students at all levels of study.
To assist these research efforts, MEM continues to offer a free introductory
one-year subscription to any student in a museum education-related course or
program. Visit http://www.mccastle.com/Public/MEM.aspx for details.
If you wish to share your research or evaluation with others around the
world, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that includes:
- name of project
- question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words/labels to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please].
For possible labels from past listings, sign in to the MEM blog, "FORUM:
Research and Resources in Museum Education" at www.mccastle.com
If you wish to share your thesis, dissertation or major paper, please send
an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that includes:
- your name
- title
- year completed
- level achieved (M.A., Ph.D., Ed.D. etc.)
- school & department
- advisor/supervisor
- your contact information
- brief abstract [no more than 50 words, please]
- URL, if the paper is available electronically
All listings are free of charge and displayed in their language of
origin. Deadline for the January issue is Friday January 16, 2009.
FYI, the following theses, dissertations, and papers were listed in MEM,
December 2008:
- Adler, Lenore. 2008. The State of Welcoming and Accessibility in Area
Museums.
- Brennan, Daniel. 2008. Individual Efforts, Democratic Designs:
Collaborative Tagging and the Future of Museum Cataloging.
- Bright-Levy, Wendy S. 2008. Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, as House
Museum: Private Home and Public Destination.
- Burns, Andrea. 2008. 'Show Me My Soul!' The Evolution of the Black Museum
Movement in Postwar America.
- Chase, Kristine A. 2008. Tenement Life: The Isaiah Davenport House and
Savannah in the Twentieth Century
- Chemko, Ericka, 2008. To Understand What We Came Fromı: Inuit
Perspectives on Museums and Inuit Objects in Museum Collections.
- Conway, Annie. 2008. A New Model For Museum Learning.
- Dickey. Jennifer. 2007. ³A Tough Little Patch of History:" Atlanta's
Marketplace for Gone with the Wind Memory.
- Doerr, Nathan. 2007. Social interactions while learning in a non-formal
setting: Creating meaningful quality experiences in free-choice learning.
- Finkle, Jillian. 2008. Zoo and Aquarium Theater
- Goldberg, Lilly J. 2007. The Museum as Social Experience: Participant
Connection, Relational Art, and Interaction a generation toward
communications.
- Hinkel, Katherine. 2008. Telephone Enquiry Services in the USA vs. the UK:
A Critique and Comparison
- Hsieh, Kevin. 2008. Art Museum Teacher Education and Participants' Needs:
A Case Study Evaluating the VAST (Visual Arts As Resources for Teaching)
Program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Hughes, Catherine. 2008. Performance for Learning: How emotions play a
part.
- Johnson, Angela M., 2008. Designing for the Future: Open Art Studio
Planning at the Madison Childrenıs Museum.
- Keesling, Katie. 2008. Coming of Age: Exploring the Relationship Between
Emerging Adults and History Museums.
- Kerns, Christa. 2007. Music, Museums and Meaning Making.
- Krause, Dawn K. 2008. Audio/Visual Tour for the Second Bank of the United
States Portrait Gallery.
- Kutoloski, Marissa D. 2008 Art--Making--Change: The Benefits of
Collaborations Between Artists and Museum Educators for At-Risk Youth.
- Lyons, Leilah Blakeney. 2008. Designing for the Cooperative Use of
Multi-user, Multi-device Museum Exhibits.
- Maunder, Rosanna. 2007. Stakeholdersı Experiences of an Interpretation
Accreditation System: A Case Study in Banff National Park, Canada.
- McCarthy, Jane. 2008. Personal Interactive Tours for the Victoria and
Albert museum
- Meyer, Emily J. 2008. Institutional Transformation in the 21st Century:
Creating Visitor-Centered Experiences in Contemporary Art Museums
- Moyer, Elizabeth R. 2007. Museology in the United States: An Analysis of
the Museum Studies Field.
- Otey, Elizabeth. 2008.The Restoration of the John Wright Stanly and The
Robert Hay Houses, New Bern, North Carolina: A Case Study on the Evolution
of the Historic House Museum.
- Otto-Diniz, Sara. 2008. Through Myth to Meaning in Children's Experiences
of Art,
- Poag, Tara Rineer Ritter. 2008. Spiderwoman: Following Her Mythical
Thread.
- Rasmussen, Briley. 2008. The Laboratory on 53rd Street: Victor D'Amico and
the Museum of Modern Art, 1937-1969.
- Sheppard, Fred. 2007. Meanings, Motivations and Management: Elements
Underlying the Development of a Snowmobiler Education Program.
- Warren, Saskia A., 2008, An Evaluation and Reimagining of the British
Museum English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Programme.
A complimentary copy of this Museum Education Monitor, December 2008, that
includes contact information for the authors is available upon request to
[log in to unmask] .
Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss your
research. I look forward to hearing from you!
M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor
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For more information about Museum Education Monitor or to subscribe see
http://www.mccastle.com
(As always, please excuse cross-postings. I try to extend the call as widely
as possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
patience is appreciated. CC.}
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