Researching children or youth-related projects in museums - Call to list

March 13, 2012

Children's programs, summer camps, early years research, teen programs,

evaluation with child/youth audiences ... Are you doing any research or

evaluation in any of these or other areas related to children or youth in

museums, galleries, science centres, parks, zoos, aquaria, or other sites

of informal learning?

If so, MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly e-newsletter, would

like to list your work in our upcoming March 2012 Children & Youth Theme

issue. As always, we welcome listings by museum workers, consultants,

faculty, and students at all levels of study.

To share research or evaluation with others around the world, please send

an e-mail to chris@mccastle.com 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].

All listings are free of charge and displayed in their language of origin.

Deadline for the March Children & Youth Theme Issue is Friday March 23.

FYI, ongoing research listed in the February 2012 MEM included:

- Peer To Peer Planetarium Program (USA)

- Climate Change High School Teacher Institute (CCHSTI) (USA)

- The Wellcome Trust Science Learning Survey (UK)

- Denver City Wide Value Study (USA)

- Human Rights Exhibitions Inventory 2010-2012 (USA)

- Visitation, Value and Vexing Questions on Conservation: Determining the

Value of Visitation at a Conservation Area (Canada)

- Evaluation of Visitor Responsiveness to the Overview Text Panels in

MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture Galleries  (USA)

- Archaeology Excavation Simulation: Critical Analysis & Effective

Alternative (Canada)

- Following In The Footsteps: Tracking gallery footfall at the Wordsworth

Trust (UK)

- Arteffact (UK)

- Challenges for the Construction of Museum Territories (Portugal)

- Museum-based literacies and learning for 21st century skills: the case

of Cypriot museum educational programmes (Cyprus, UK)

- The School and the Museums (Sweden)

To check out these and other research projects visit the MEM blog, "FORUM:

Research and Resources in Museum Education," at http://forum.mccastle.com/

For more information about this call or to discuss your research, please

get in touch as below. I look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Ph.D.

Editor, Museum Education Monitor

chris@mccastle.com

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(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)