September 18, 2006
Ongoing museum education research or evaluation project?

MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the e-newsletter, is now compiling a
list of ongoing research and evaluation projects on questions relating
to museum/gallery education or interpretation for our upcoming October
2006 issue. Projects by students, academics, practitioners (paid and
volunteer) are equally welcome.
 
If you wish to share your research or evaluation with others around the
world, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that includes:
- name of project
- research or evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented [report, article, dissertation,
program, training event, workshop, curriculum, plan for change, etc.]
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]
Deadline for this issue is *Friday, October 13, 2006.*

Listings are, of course, free of charge. Submissions are included in the
current MEM and catalogued afterwards in our archives, which now
contains over 1,000 entries. Full access to the MEM Archives is
available only to subscribers. However, time-limited guest passes are
available to students and interested others by contacting MEM at
[log in to unmask] .

FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, August 2006:
- Diversity, Media and Museums (Canada)
- Field Trip Chaperones as Partners in Student Learning (USA)
- The Impact of Informal Science on Girls' Interest, Engagement, and
Participation in Science Communities, Hobbies and Careers: A Research
and Dissemination Project (USA)
- Refugees at the Open Air Museum: the museum as a place for informal
lifelong learning. A case study (Sweden)
- Informal learning as a pathway to formal learning (Sweden)

UPDATES on research listed in earlier issues of MEM
- Art Education in Public Art Museums (Australia)
- Striking Gold: Mining the Resources of the Crocker Art Museum (USA)
- Family Interpretive Project (USA)

A complimentary copy of the August 2006 issue of Museum Education
Monitor noted above is available upon request to [log in to unmask] .   

Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss
your research. We look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor 
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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For more information about Museum Education Monitor, please go to
http://www.mccastle.com        

(Please excuse cross-postings. We try to extend the call as widely as
possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
patience is appreciated. CC.}

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