Dear Colleagues,
Here is some information on the current issue of the Journal of Museum Education (note that if you are already a member of MER, you should be receiving this journal as part of your membership). I will send additional information soon. Once again, thanks for excusing cross-postings.
New from Left Coast Press, Inc.:
Journal of Museum Education: A Publication of the Museum Education Roundtable
The Intersection of Museums and the Learning Sciences
Guest Editors: Heather Toomey Zimmerman and Sandra Toro Martell
Summer 2008
384 pages; Vol. 33, N. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the Editor — Elizabeth Maurer
From the Guest Editors — Heather Toomey Zimmerman and Sandra Toro Martell
Professional Development for Museum Educators: Unpinning the Underpinnings — Bronwyn Bevan and Maria Xanthoudaki
Between the Lines of Engagement in Museums: Indiana University and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis — Elizabeth Wood and Barbara Wolf
Exploring Middle School Girls’ Ideas about Science at a Bilingual Marine Science Camp — Mele Wheaton and Doris Ash
Distributed Expertise in a Science Center: Social and Intellectual Role-Taking by Families — Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Suzanne Reeve, and Philip Bell
The Practical Epistemologies in the Museum: A Study of Students’ Learning in Encounters with Dioramas — Jesús Piqueras, Karim Hamza and Susanna Edvall
What is This Exhibit Showing You? Insights from Stimulated Recall Interviews with Primary School Children — Jennifer E. DeWitt
Using Design Based Research in Informal Environments — Molly Reisman
Challenging a Common Assumption of Hands-on Exhibits: How Counterintuitive Phenomena Can Undermine Inquiry — Joshua P. Gutwill
Wolves are Beautiful and Proud: Science Learning from a School Field Trip — Marilyn Petty Glick and Ala Samarapungavan
Of Cultural Tools and Kinds of Knowledge: Investigating Field Trip-Based Learning about Art, Culture, and the Environment — Sandra Toro Martell
Encountering Nanotechnology in an Interactive Exhibition — Sandra E. Murriello and Marcelo Knobel
To order this issue, visit our website at: http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal_issue.php?id=108
Journal ISSN: 1059-8650
Issue ISBN: 978-1-59874-805-5
ISSUE PRICE:
Individuals: $25
Museums: $40
Institutions: $70
To subscribe to the Journal of Museum Education, published every Spring, Summer, and Fall, visit our website at http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=3. Members of the Museum Education Roundtable (MER) receive a subscription to the journal and a discount on back issues as part of their membership. To join MER, go to www.mer-online.org.
For more information, contact Stefania Van Dyke at [log in to unmask]
Stefania R. Van Dyke
Museum Studies and Practice
Left Coast Press, Inc.
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