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Teresa Gregorio – Journal of Museum Education, 2025
There are important connections between child-centered approaches, wellness, and the activist role that art museum educators can play in their institutions and the wider community. While there are practical challenges to achieving these goals within a small institution, the museum educator's positionality in such an institution can allow for…
Descriptors: Wellness, Activism, Feminism, Teaching Methods
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Melanie A. Giangreco; Megan Ennes; Sadie Mills; Rebecca Burton; Mariela Pajuelo; Michelle J. LeFebvre; Alison E. Adams – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Civic engagement in environmental issues creates opportunities for students to explore and combine interests in the environment and community action as well as to develop new perspectives related to social justice issues. This manuscript examines the outcomes of a yearlong eco-civic fellowship for undergraduates representing a variety of cultural…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Undergraduate Students, Citizen Participation, Environmental Education
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Tišliar, Pavol – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
This paper examines the development of museum studies and museology as a field of scientific inquiry and a university course in Slovakia. First I examine the role of memory institutions in the formation of this field in response to the need for the specialized education of their staff and describe the fundamentals and the development of program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Heritage Education, Program Development
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Burch, Stuart; Dongxu, Chen; Jingjing, Fu; Zhiyi, Guan; Yu, Qi; Shuo, Tang; Yi, Tian; Senyang, Xie – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
This article demonstrates how a teaching case study approach can benefit museum studies courses. It takes as its focus the widely reported rescue of a boys' football team from a flooded cave in Thailand (2018). The success of this multinational effort led to immediate calls for the establishment of a "living museum" dedicated to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Museums, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Mink, Meridith Beck – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2016
In September 2015, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) a grant to investigate the early impacts of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) programs, in order to inform subsequent development of similar programs by others with a vested interest in building…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Library Services, Information Management, Library Automation
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Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
"Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (IConSES) which took place on October 15-18, 2020 in Chicago, IL. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to discuss…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Higher Education, Hispanic American Students, Vocational Education
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Akerson, Valari, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
"International Conference on Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) which took place on October 15-18, 2020 in Chicago, IL, USA. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share your ideas, to discuss theoretical and practical…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Sciences, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
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Ampartzaki, Maria; Kypriotaki, Maria; Voreadou, Catherine; Dardioti, Antonia; Stathi, Iasmi – Educational Action Research, 2013
This study explores the integration of two key ideas and working frameworks: a community of educational practice formed by the synergy between a natural history museum and a university department of pre-school education, which undertook participatory action research aimed at the creation of innovative museum programmes for young children. Data…
Descriptors: Museums, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Communities of Practice
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Samis, Peter S.; Johnson, Laurence F.; Smith, Rachel S. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2007
This paper provides a history of the "Pachyderm 2.0 Project," a partnership led by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMONA), and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project brings software development teams and digital library experts from six NMC universities together with…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Museums, Intellectual Property, Program Development