TY - BOOK AU - Hooper-Greenhill,Eilean TI - The educational role of the museum SN - 9780415198271 U1 - 371.3/84 /069 21 PY - 1999/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Museums and schools KW - Museums KW - Educational aspects KW - Great Britain N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Education, communication and interpretation: towards a critical pedagogy in museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Communication in theory and practice / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Learning in art museums: strategies of interpretation / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The museum as a communicator: a semiotic analysis of the Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Gallery, Perth / Robert Hodge, Wilfred D'Souza -- Museum learners as active postmodernists: contextualizing constructivism / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The constructivist museum / George E. Hein -- Teaching yourself to teach with objects / John Hennigar Shuh -- Improving worksheets / Gail Durbin -- Open windows, open doors / Jessica Davis, Howard Gardner -- Museum multicultural education for young learners / Joseph H. Suina -- Children, teenagers and adults in museums: a developmental perspective / Nina Jensen -- Museum-goers: life-styles and learning characteristics / Charles F. Gunther -- Whose museum is it anvwav? Museum education and the community / Jocelyn Dodd -- Learning from learning theory in museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Intrinsic motivation in museums: why does one want to learn? / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kim Hermanson -- Cognitive psychology and interpretation: synthesis and application / Sam H. Ham -- Collaboration: towards a more holistic design process / Hank Grasso, Howard Morrison -- Spatial considerations / Communications Design Team, Royal Ontario Museum -- The exhibition development process / David Dean -- Combating redundancy: writing texts for exhibitions / Margareta Ekarv --; Writing readable text: evaluation of the Ekarv method / Elizabeth Gilmore, Jennifer Sabine -- How old is this text? / James Carter -- Museum text as mediated message / Helen Coxall -- Increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction / Betty Davidson, Candace Lee Heald, George E. Hein -- That those who run may read / Tony Bennett -- Audiences: a curatorial dilemma / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Cultural imagining among museum visitors / Sharon Macdonald -- The disabling society / Rebecca McGinnis -- Museums and cultural diversity in contemporary Britain / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- A beginner's guide to evaluation / Phil Bull -- Monitoring and evaluation: the techniques / G. Binks, D. Uzzell -- Small-scale evaluation / Tim Badman -- Evaluation of museum programmes and exhibits / George E. Hein -- Pupils' perceptions of museum education sessions / Marilyn Ingle -- Collaborative evaluation studies between the University of Liverpool and national museums and galleries on Merseyside / Terry Russell -- Sending them home alive / Anita Rui Olds ER -