Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums
By: edited by Scott G. Paris.
Contributors: Paris, Scott G., 1946-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Children's museums -- Educational aspects.; Learning, Psychology of.; Active learning.; Object-teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Contributors; title: Part I Studying Learning with Objects in Contexts; title: 1 The Role of Context in Children's Learning From Objects; title: and Experiences; title: Lynn Dierking; title: 2 The Role of Objects in Active, Distributed Meaning-Making; title: Shawn Rowe; title: 3 Children Learning with Objects in Informal Learning; title: Environments; title: Scott G. Paris and Susanna E. Hapgood; title: 4 The Authentic Object? A Child's-Eye View; title: E. Margaret Evans, Melinda S. Mull, and; title: DevereauxA. Poling; title: 5 When the Object is Digital: Properties of Digital Surrogate; title: Objects and Implications for Learning; title: C Olivia Frost; title: 6 Through the Garden Gate: Objects and Informal Education; title: for Environmental and Cultural Awareness in Arboreta and; title: Botanic Gardens; title: David C Michener and IngerJ. Schultz; title: 7 Epistemological Issues about Objects; title: James VWertsch; title: Part II Discipline-Based Explorations of Objects; title: 8 Learning With, Through, and About Art: The Role of; title: Social Interactions; title: Barbara Piscitelli and Katrina Weier; title: 9 Placing Objects Within Disciplinary Perspectives: Examples; title: From History and Science; title: Robert Bain and Kirsten M. Ellenbogen; title: 10 Fostering an Investigatory Stance: Using Text to Mediate; title: Inquiry with Museum Objects; title: Susanna E. Hapgood andAnnemarie Sullivan Palincsar; title: 11 Objects and Learning: Understanding Young Children's; title: Interaction with Science Exhibits; title: Leonie J Rennie and Terence P McClafferty; title: 12 Reading Objects; title: Christina E. van Kraayenoord and Scott G. Paris; title: 13 Cloaking Objects in Epistemological Practices; title: Leona Schauble; title: Part m Conversations About Objects; title: 14 Object-Based Learning and Family Groups; title: Minda Borun; title: 15 Maps, Globes, and Videos: Parent-Child Conversations; title: About Representational Objects; title: Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer L.Jipson, and; title: Monika Stampf Soennichsen; title: 16 Pathways Among Objects and Museum Visitors; title: KristineA. Morrissey; title: 17 Objects of Learning, Objects of Talk: Changing Minds; title: in Museums; title: Gaea Leinhardt and Kevin Crowley; title: 18 Leveling the Playing Field Through Object-Based; title: Service Learning; title: DeAnna Banks Beane and Myla Shanae Pope; title: 19 The Object of Experience; title: Sally Duensing; title: Author Index; title: Subject Index.