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The Necessity of Making the Invisible Visible:

The Challenge of Using Museums in Formal Education

 

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies cordially
invites colleagues to attend the next G. Brown Goode Smithsonian
Education Lecture, 'The Necessity of Making the Invisible Visible: The
Challenge of Using Museums in Formal Education.' The program will take
place on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Lecture Hall
of the S. Dillon Ripley Center. (1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington,
DC.)   It will feature presentations by Dr. Robert Bain and Martin
Creel.  The lecture will also be web cast live on
http://museumstudies.si.edu <http://museumstudies.si.edu/>  and archived
on that site for later viewing.   

 

Recently museums have had unprecedented professional development
opportunities to interact with teachers at all grade levels and across
all content areas. Most of the interaction follows a "sensible"
precedent of having experts provide content to teachers through lectures
or exhibits or working with teachers in using content to make lesson
plans. While getting content and planning lessons are necessary for
teaching, such professional development interactions are hardly
sufficient if the goal is improving students' understanding and
achievement. 

 

In his talk, Professor Robert Bain argues for and presents examples of a
more dynamic model of interaction with teachers. Drawing on experiences
as classroom teacher, historian, and scholar of history teaching and
learning, Bain takes inspiration from the television program, 'Inside
the Actors Studio', to argue for making the invisible visible.

 

Martin Creel will describe the systemic changes that occurred in the
Montgomery County Public Schools' curriculum as result of participation
in a Teaching American history grant.

 

About the presenter:

Robert (Bob) Bain is Associate Professor of History and Social Science
Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his Ph.D.
in American History and Social Policy from Case Western University.  For
five years, he worked with the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
on a multi-year study of teaching and learning history with museum
resources, and is a faculty affiliate for the Museum Studies Program at
UM and on their advisory board. Among his recent publications is
"Placing Objects Within Disciplinary Perspectives" in Perspectives on
Object-Centered Learning in Museums (co-author K.Ellenbogen, 2002).  

 

About the discussant:

Martin (Marty) Creel is a school system administrator with Montgomery
County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland.  During his time as social
studies supervisor Marty led a redevelopment of the social studies
curriculum from Pre-K to Grade 11 and was fortunate to partner with the
Smithsonian Institution, Montgomery College, and the College of
Education at the University of Maryland, College Park in a US Department
of Education Teaching American History grant.  This partnership shaped
the district's approach to infusing primary sources and historical
thinking in the required curriculum.  

 

This program is the second of two G. Brown Goode lectures looking at the
research on learning in formal and informal museum settings.  It is part
of the G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture series for
professional development.  Through this series, named after the
Smithsonian's earliest proponent of museums as educational institutions,
Smithsonian staff can help keep abreast of emerging developments in
education pertaining to many aspects of their work, from exhibit design
to outreach in the schools.  The series features programs that bring
together academic researchers and museum practitioners to examine the
roles museums play in developing the skills necessary for success in the
21st century.

 

All Goode lectures are web cast and archived for viewing at
http://museumstudies.si.edu <http://museumstudies.si.edu/> 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce C. Craig

Director of Research and Planning

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies 

Washington, DC  20013-7012

http://museumstudies.si.edu

 

 


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