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Jen Thum; Hyewon Hyun – Journal of Museum Education, 2025
For the past seven years, we -- a museum educator and an academic radiologist -- have co-taught Seeing in Art and Medical Imaging, a first-of-its-kind medical humanities curriculum for residents in nuclear medicine and radiology based at the Harvard Art Museums. The program aims to foster residents' close looking and clinical skills,…
Descriptors: Art, Museums, Medical Education, Radiology
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Kon, Rebecca; Zankowicz, Kate – Journal of Museum Education, 2022
Building anti-ableist museum education practices into our toolboxes of educational skills is an important way to ensure that museum educators are dismantling the ableism at work in museum interpretation. This paper offers practical strategies for building anti-ableist museum education practices, which we model using one artwork, Enrique Martínez…
Descriptors: Museums, Teaching Methods, Disabilities, Quality of Life
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Avril Alba – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
Australian Holocaust museums are at a crossroads regarding their exhibitions and educational programming. Originally survivor driven initiatives, they now face the dual challenge of negotiating the loss of the survivor generation and interpreting the goals of Holocaust education in light of their absence. To do so, they must confront the question…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Jews, Death
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Iveta Kestere; Arnis Strazdins; Inese Rezgorina; Reinis Vejins – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The project "Representation of Childhood at the Museums of Latvia, Integrated in the E-Learning Environment of Higher Education" was a response to the need for sources in the history of education that would accommodate the interests of students in educational sciences. The article aims at sharing the project experience in (1) mapping the…
Descriptors: Museums, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Acosta, Diana I.; Polinsky, Naomi J.; Haden, Catherine A.; Uttal, David H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
This study is a collaborative project between university researchers and museum practitioners investigating ways to advance STEM learning opportunities for young children and their families in museums. The focus of the work is on how the knowledge resources that are available to families (e.g., prior knowledge, information provided by the museum…
Descriptors: Museums, Childrens Attitudes, STEM Education, Educational Opportunities
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Osborn, J. R.; Barba, Evan; Henderson, Gretchen E.; Strong, Lisa M.; Kadish, Lesley H. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2019
This article presents the Pilgrimage Model as a template for educators wishing to lead students on site-specific studies of engaged learning. During the 2015-2016 academic year, a group of Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff pursued the Pilgrimage Project, a year-long pedagogical experiment in interdisciplinary education and…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Students, College Faculty
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Watson, Keri – Journal of Museum Education, 2014
Prompted by the passage of Alabama House Bill 56, I organized the museum studies course I taught for Auburn University at Montgomery in the 2013 spring semester around an exhibition on immigration. The course offered the opportunity to engage students, faculty, and the community in discussion of an important, timely, and controversial topic.…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Immigration, Exhibits, Museums
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Villafranca-Guzman, Nancy; Tortolero, Carlos – Journal of Museum Education, 2010
The National Museum of Mexican Art was founded by a group of educators in 1987. Twenty-three years later, as the first and only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it presents exhibition programming of the highest quality, and conserves an extensive and inclusive art collection. Unlike many museums, it places…
Descriptors: Architecture, Museums, Databases, Mexicans
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Powell, Linda S. – Art Education, 2012
Art museums and other institutions of informal learning can promote multicultural understanding by collaborating with community ethnic groups and designing exhibitions that richly characterize the cultures they represent. Through the lens of educational programming for the exhibition "30 Americans," this article describes how both the Corcoran…
Descriptors: Art Education, Museums, Multicultural Education, Informal Education
St. John, Mark; Carroll, Becky; Helms, Jen; Robles, Dawn; Stelmah, Lynn – Inverness Research, 2008
Over the course of three rounds of consecutive funding, the National Science Foundation (NSF) invested in the Traveling Exhibits at Museums of Science (TEAMS) collaborative. Since 1996, the TEAMS collaborative museums have developed traveling exhibitions and related education materials to circulate through each other's museums, and then more…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Summative Evaluation, Research Projects, Museums
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Rowe, Patricia – Children Today, 1987
Explores an exciting new international gallery--"Passport to the World"--at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, which houses the largest collection of any youth museum in the world. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Exhibits, Global Approach, Museums
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Townsend, Neal – Art Education, 1985
As part of their facilities, the Department of Art Education at the University of New Mexico created an exhibition gallery open to both the academic community and the general public. The formation and program of the university-based art gallery is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Arts Centers, Exhibits, Higher Education
Sawyer, Walter E.; Snapp, Carolyn – 1981
The Museum Resource Center in Waterford, New York, is a pullout program where gifted elementary students work on individual projects in science, technology, or the humanities. Students engage in five tasks in developing a museum display: selcting a topic, exploring it in depth, constructing a display to illustrate their findings, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Exhibits
Nichols, Susan K., Ed.; And Others – 1984
This 45-paper anthology presents an overall picture of 1973-1983 writings in Roundtable Reports, the quarterly journal of Museum Education Roundtable. Thirty-five of the articles appeared in previous Roundtable Reports, while some are new articles that reflect on original articles to provide context and historical perspective. Papers are grouped…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Exhibits, Indexes, Informal Education
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Danilov, Victor J. – Science and Children, 1973
Describes the programs developed for elementary school children at twelve of the nation's leading science museums. These programs are based on physical and life sciences, make use of visitor-participation exhibits, and demonstrate scientific principles and their applications in society and industry. (JR)
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Programs, Elementary School Science, Exhibits
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