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"Bird of another feather": re-envisioning professional development for museum learning experts
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Xanthoudaki, Maria |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Educators in museums are many, and diverse. You can perceive this just by noting the terms used for them across different institutions and countries: museum educators, docents, programme developers, face-to-face learning experts, explainers, facilitators, mediators — these are some of the most common names for the professionals taking care of visitors’ learning experiences [Rodari and Xanthoudaki, 2005; Richard, 2010; Rodari, Mathieu and Xanthoudaki, 2012]. Diversity can be found also in the educators’ tasks in museums — from direct interaction with visitors to programme, activity, or resource development, to organization and evaluation, to front-of-house tasks — to name but the main ones. Educators have an important role; they are the “visitors’ advocates” [Hooper-Greenhill, 2000], the ones knowing what learning in museums means, who the visitors are and what they expect, what kind, how many — and how unexpected — outcomes can be drawn out of a visit. Educators are therefore the ones contributing to create an engaging, constructive, open-ended, positive, personally-meaningful, memorable-for-a-lifetime learning experience, for each and every visitor walking in the museum. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.22323/2.15040303 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://jcom.sissa.it/sites/default/files/documents/JCOM_1504_2016_C03.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.22323/2.15040303 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
