TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,David
AU  - Cosson,Alex de
AU  - McIntosh,Lisa
TI  - Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators: Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis 
SN  - 9789463002387
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - SensePublishers, Imprint: SensePublishers
KW  - Education
N1  - Foreword -- Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators: Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1: Introduction: Museum Educators Supporting Diverse Audiences: Parents, Teenagers and Family Groups -- Home Educators' Views of Museums: Challenges and Opportunities of Supporting Non-Traditional Learning -- On Our Own: Family Experiences in Art Museums Outside of Facilitated Programming -- Parents' Perspectives about Exhibit Label Content in a Science Museum -- Sparks of Learning: Insights from an After-School Science Museum Program for Teenagers -- Section 2: Introduction: Museum Educators Practice: Challenging Topics and Unique Audiences -- Navigating Sensitive Topics with Children: An Inquiry of Museum Educators Facilitating Conversations about Death with Children -- Children's Attitudes toward Specimens at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum -- Museums and Marginalized Historical Narratives: Learning the Truth about Indian Residential Schools at the UBC Museum of Anthropology -- Training Scientists to Communicate Science to the Public in a Science Museum Setting -- Identification of Potential Methods of Professional Support for Museum Educators Working with Young Children with Cognitive Disabilities in Museums -- Section 3: Introduction: Museum Educators' Praxis: Learning through Ones' Own Reflexive Research -- Representing Other: Finding Reflections of Myself from a Space In-Between a Garden and a Museum -- Using Informal Learning Spaces to Increase Meaning-Making: Museum Visits with Young Adults -- Embodied Tensions: Digging into Agriculture at the BC Farm Museum -- Ecologies of Youth Art Apprenticeship: A Case Study of the Burnaby Art Gallery's Artist Apprenticeship Project -- Creating Meaningful Experiences in Art Museums: A Study of Museum Educators' Perceptions of Meaningful Engagement with Works of Art -- Contributors -- Index
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-238-7
ER  -