Sobel / Jipson Cognitive Development in Museum Settings

Relating Research and Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-35845-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Researchers in cognitive development are gaining new insights into the ways in which children learn about the world. At the same time, there has been increased recognition of the important role that visits to informal learning institutions plays in supporting learning. Research and practice pursuits typically unfold independently and often with different goals and methods, making it difficult to make meaningful connections between laboratory research in cognitive development and practices in informal education. Recently, groundbreaking partnerships between researchers and practitioners have resulted in innovative strategies for linking findings in cognitive development together with goals critical to museum practitioners, such as exhibit evaluation and design.

Cognitive Development in Museum Settings offers an account of ways in which researchers in cognitive development partner with museum practitioners. Each chapter describes a partnership between academic researchers and museum practitioners and details their collaboration, the important research that has resulted from their partnership, and the benefits and challenges of maintaining their relationship. This approach illustrates cutting-edge developmental science, but also considers how researcher-practitioner interactions affect research outcomes and provide insight to questions common to practitioners. In addition, each set of researchers and practitioners discusses issues brought up by the partnership by posing questions concerning research-practice partnerships and research evidence, considering whether and how cognitive development research conducted in museum settings aligns with larger disciplinary interests in that field, and examining to what extent museum practitioners benefit from applying research on the development of cognitive processes to their educational practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobel, David M.

Jipson, Jennifer L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Interaction between Research and Practice in Museum Settings: An Introduction and Synthesis, Jennifer Jipson and David M. Sobel

Section 1: Research/Practitioner Partnerships

- Two Decades of Families Learning in a Children’s Museum: A Partnership of Research and Exhibit Development, Maureen Callanan, Jennifer Martin, and Megan Luce

- The Spiral Model: Integrating Research and Exhibit Development to Foster Conceptual Change, E. Margaret Evans, Martin Weiss, Jonathan D. Lane, and Sasha Palmquist

- The Living Laboratory® Model: A Mutual Professional Development Model for Museum-based Research Partnerships, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Becki (Rebecca) Kipling, Samuel Ronfard, Marta C. Biarnes, Brittany M. Jeye, and Paul L. Harris

- Building Learning: Narrating Experiences in a Children’s Museum, Catherine A. Haden, Tsivia Cohen, David H. Uttal, and Maria Marcus

- Learning about Science and Self: A Partnership between the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Psychology Department at New York University, Marjorie Rhodes and Leslie Bushara

- Developing Mind Lab: A University-Museum Partnership to Explore the Process of Learning, David M. Sobel, Susan Letourneau, and Robin Meisner

- Examining the Development of Scientific Reasoning in Context: A Museum and Laboratory Partnership, Cristine H. Legare, Robin Gose and Cybil Guess

Section 2: Discussion of Partnerships

- Collaboration Is a Two-Way Street, Suzanne Gaskins

- Research and Museum Partnerships: Key Components of Successful Collaborations, Helen Hadani and Caren M. Walker

- 11. Wanted: A New Cultural Model for the Relationship between Research and Practice, Bronwyn Bevan

Section 3: General Discussion

- Exploring models of research-practice partnership within a single institution: Two Kinds of Jointly Negotiated Research, Sue Allen and Joshua P. Gutwill

- Curating Experience: The Role of Learner Agency in Museums and Schools and the Development of Adaptive Expertise, Tina A. Grotzer and S. Lynneth Solis

- Two Missions in Search of a Shared Culture, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Sobel is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. His research examines children’s causal reasoning, learning, pretending, and the development of social cognition.

Jennifer L. Jipson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her research investigates preschool children’s developing understandings within the domains of science, health and technology, with a focus on how everyday interactions in informal settings contribute to children’s learning.