Now that September is upon us, are you, your colleagues, or your
students working on a research project related to education,
interpretation, or professional training and development in museums, art
galleries, or science centres?

We are compiling a list of such projects for the OCTOBER issue of Museum
Education Monitor (MEM). If you would like your project to be included,
please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that summarizes:

- name of project
- research question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- principal researchers
- 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 submissions for this issue is Friday, October 8, 2004.

Our goal as a publication is to connect existing researchers with one
another and to encourage museum workers generally to undertake their own
investigations. The information will be shared initially with
subscribers to Museum Education Monitor, but may be circulated more
widely in the future when past issues of MEM are available for download
on the website.

Projects listed in the August 2004 issue of MEM include: staff- and
volunteer-directed research within museums and galleries, academic
research by faculty and doctoral candidates, and work by independent
scholars and consultants. Ongoing investigations listed in August MEM:

-You’ve got a Heide: A Strategic Partnerships Program with the
Department of Education and Training (Australia)
-Connecting the Bush: Popular culture and broadcast media in regional
Queensland 1945-2003 (Australia)
-Utilising Archaeology Museums to Deliver the Primary Citizenship
Curriculum in Jordan (Jordan)
-Investigation and Evaluation of the ECEB Project (Investigación y
Evaluación del Proyecto ECEB) (Mexico)
-Use of tactile/outreach/public access collections (New Zealand) 
-'In between two worlds- London teenagers' ideas about identity,
cultural belonging and Black History'(UK)
-Literacy Through Art (LTA) Impact Study (USA)
-Summer Art Camp: Evaluation of students entering grades 3-6 during six,
half day, week long classes (USA)
-Collecting Personal Narratives of Segregation at museums and on museum
web-sites (USA)
-Virtual Archaeologist: Excavations at the Like-a-Fishhook Village Site
(USA)
-Community Mapping Boston (tentative title) (USA)
-Visitor Research for the special exhibition, "Painting a New World:
Mexican Art & Life, 1521-1821" (USA)
-Building connections between museums and schools through museum web
sites: An exploration of research on using the Internet in K-12 schools
with implications for museum practice and museum web sites (USA)
-How volunteer docents develop expertise: PhD Dissertation (USA) 
-Saint Louis Zoo Brand Audit (USA)
-expeditions@fieldmuseum™ Education Initiative (USA)
-Techbridge (USA)
-Community Pride Through School Histories (USA)
-Criteria for Exhibit Evaluation at the Palouse Discovery Science Center
(USA)
-Electronic Training Resources to Improve Visitor Engagement within Live
Interpretation (USA)

To receive a complimentary copy of the August issue of MEM, please
contact the editor at the address below.

M. Christine Castle, Ph.D.
Editor, Museum Education Monitor
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