Learning Across Time and Place: The Role of Museums in the Informal
Educational Landscape

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies announces the
next G. Brown Goode Education Lecture:   'Learning Across Time and
Place: The Role of Museums in the Informal Educational Landscape.' The
program will take place on Monday, March 3, 2008 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
in the Ring Auditorium of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
The program will also be web cast live on http://museumstudies.si.edu.
'Learning Across Time and Place' is the first of two G. Brown Goode
lectures looking at the research on learning in formal and informal
museum settings.

Less than 15% of a schoolchild's waking time is spent in the classroom.
Yet the national investment in education is almost exclusively limited
to that small portion of a child's life.  This program will look at the
role learning plays in other settings and times -- at home, in museums,
in after school programs, and on the net -- in developing students'
interest, readiness, and capacity to succeed both in school and as
lifelong learners.

The program will feature two speakers: 
Professor Phillip Bell is the associate professor of the Learning
Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle and co-chair of the
National Research Council's Informal Science Learning Committee. Dr.
Bell will share recent research from the NSF-funded LIFE Center
(Learning in Informal and Formal Environments) that examines how
learning develops across time and setting. 

Bronwyn Bevan is the Director of the Center for Informal Learning and
Schools (CILS), a partnership with the Exploratorium in San Francisco,
Kings College London and University of California Santa Cruz.  Ms. Bevan
will report on what the NSF-funded CILS is learning about the role that
museums can and do play in enhancing and extending learning that happens
both in and out of school.

A companion program, 'The Role of Museums in Formal Education,' will be
held on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.  Dr. Bob Bain, Associate Professor of
History and Social Studies Education at the University of Michigan will
speak about his multi-year study of teaching and learning history in
museums and with museum resources.  Further information about the May
lecture will be provided at a later date.

Both programs are part of the G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education
series of professional development.  Through this series, named after
the Smithsonian Institution's earliest proponent of museums as
educational institutions, Smithsonian and other museum staffs can help
keep abreast of emerging developments in education pertaining to many
aspects of their work, from exhibit design to outreach in the schools.
All Goode Lectures are web cast and made available for viewing at
http://museumstudies.si.edu .




 

 

 

 

 


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