Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.
Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? What roles can museums serve in a learning community? This text investigates these and other questions, synthesizing theories and research from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, anthropology, a…
Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? What roles can museums serve in a learning community? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking investigate these questions in Learning from Museums. Synthesizing th…
Synthesizes theories and research from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, anthropology, neuroscience and museum research on how museums can create better learning environments.
Informal learning pedagogy has become a major topic within the international field of music education, due in no small part to Lucy Green's groundbreaking research on popular musicians' learning, as well as her subsequent efforts to turn her research findings into a pedagogy tha…
A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive thes…
""The World Is Our Classroom" explores parenting during the rise of "worldschooling.""--
""The World Is Our Classroom" explores parenting during the rise of "worldschooling.""--
Whilst learning is central to most understandings of what it is to be human, we now live in a knowledge society where being educated defines life chances more than ever before. Learning Beyond the School brings together accounts of learning from around the world in organisations…