Here are some sources you might want to check out:

The Museum Learning Collaborative annotated bibliography at:
http://mlc.lrdc.pitt.edu/Annotatedlit.html

Family Learning in Museums: The PISEC Perspective specifically looks at
family learning in museums and offers clear definitions of what this means
to them. Available through the ASTC bookstore.
http://www.astc.org/pubs/catalog.htm#education

The Journal of Museum Education, v.22, n.1-3, Understanding the Visitor
Experience: Theory and Practice offers an excellent overview of the state of
the field just a few years ago. Issues are available from the Museum
Education Roundtable: http://users.erols.com/merorg/publ/jme/jme2.html

The Informal Learning Review devoted their March/April 1999 issue to
learning theories and their application in the informal museum context. Some
of the articles from that issue are online at:
http://www.informallearning.com/ilr-archive.htm

ASTC has several articles about learning in museums and learning theory on
their website: http://www.astc.org/resource/educator/educmain.htm

George Hein has worked with a number of museums, including to Exploratorium,
in using constructivism as a basis for creating museum experiences. There is
an article available at: http://www.gem.org.uk/hein.html.

There are a number of other useful articles on the Group for Education in
Museums website: http://www.gem.org.uk/geminfo.html#anchor1609200.

Susan B.F. Wageman                       [log in to unmask]
Senior Manager, Interpretation/Visitor Experience
The Tech Museum of Innovation            408-795-6303
201 South Market Street                  fax: 408-279-7167
San Jose, California USA 95113           http://www.thetech.org

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