Learning from museums : an introduction -- The personal dimensions of learning -- The sociocultural dimensions of learning -- The physical dimensions of learning -- The dimensions of time (and space) -- Museums and the individual -- Communities of learning -- Museums as spaces and places for learning -- The contextual model of learning -- Documenting learning from museums -- Supporting learning in and from museums -- Museums in a learning society -- The future of museum as institutions of learning.
Summary:
"In the second edition of their 2000 book, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking offer an updated version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as present the latest advances in museum research, theory, and practice in order to provide readers an inside view of how and why people learn from their museum experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
American Association for State and Local History book series
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