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Learning from Museums

By: John H. Falk,Lynn D. Dierking

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This is the second edition ofJohn H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking’s ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and those they would like to serve). This new edition offers an updated and synthesized version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as the latest advances in free-choice learning research, theory and practice, in order to provide readers a highly readable and informative understanding of the personal, sociocultural and physical dimensions of the museum experience. Falk and Dierking also fill in gaps in the 1st edition. Falk’s research focuses increasingly on the self-related needs that museums meet, and these findings enhance the personal context chapter. Dierking’s work delves deeply into the macro-sociocultural dimensions of learning, a topic not discussed in the sociocultural chapter in the first edition. Emphasizing the importance of time (and space), the second edition adds an entirely new chapter to describe the important dimension of time. They also insert findings from the burgeoning field of neuroscience. Latter chapters of the book discuss the evolving role of museums in the rapidly changing Information /Learning Society of the 21st century. New examples and suggestions highlight the ways that the new understandings of learning can help museum practitioners reinvent how museums can and should support the public’s lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442276002

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The Museum Experience

By: John H Falk,Lynn D Dierking

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The Museum Experience

By: John H Falk,Lynn D Dierking

As the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking integrate their original research from a wide variety of disciplines as well as visitor studies from institutions ranging from science centers and zoos to art and natural history museums. Written in clear, non-technical style, The Museum Experience paints a thorough picture of why people go to museums, what they do there, how they learn, and what museum practitioners can do to enhance these experiences. This book is an essential reference for all museum professionals and students of museum studies, and has been used widely for higher education courses in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. Originally published in 1992, the book is now available from Left Coast Press, Inc. as of November 2010.

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Routledge

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1315417871

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Learning from Museums

Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

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Learning from Museums

Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.

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0742502953

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9780742502956

Lessons Without Limit

How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

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Lessons Without Limit

How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

Not just another book about school reform, 'Lessons Without Limit' is a guide to transforming the entire experience of learning across a lifetime.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759101604

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9780759101609

The Museum Experience

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

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The Museum Experience

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

This book provides a thorough introduction to what is known about why people visit museums, what they do there, and that they learn. It offers recommendations and guidelines to help museum staff understand their clientele and their interactions with them.

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Howells House

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0929590074

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Thriving in the Knowledge Age

New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions

By: John Howard Falk,Beverly Sheppard

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Thriving in the Knowledge Age

New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions

By: John Howard Falk,Beverly Sheppard

Thriving in the Knowledge Age provides an entirely new way of envisioning the business model for your cultural institution.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759107580

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9780759107588

The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

The Progressive Era, 1893-1914

By: John D. Buenker

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

The Progressive Era, 1893-1914

By: John D. Buenker

Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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0870203037

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Museum Experience Revisited

By: John H Falk,Lynn D Dierking

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Museum Experience Revisited

By: John H Falk,Lynn D Dierking

The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, updated to incorporate advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years.

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Left Coast Press

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1611320453

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Lessons Without Limit

How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

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Lessons Without Limit

How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

Not just another book about school reform, 'Lessons Without Limit' is a guide to transforming the entire experience of learning across a lifetime.

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Rowman Altamira

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

Screen World, volume 38, features outstanding films and performers. Academy Awards Best Picture "Platoon". Academy Award for Best Actor Paul Newman for "The color of money" and Academy Award for Best Actress Marlee Matlin "Children of a lesser God". Also has pictorial and statistical record of the 1986 movie season.

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051756615X

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Lessons Without Limit

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Thriving in the Knowledge Age

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

Museum Experience Revisited

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Lessons Without Limit

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