A study on social studies teacher candidates' views on museums and museum education
The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of Social Studies Teacher Candidates on museums and museum education. The study group of the research consisted of social studies teacher candidates studying in the Undergraduate Program of Social Studies Teaching in Van Yuzuncu Yil University during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Sharing Perspectives: Inviting Playful Curiosity Into Museum Spaces Through a Performative Score
We report on the performative score “Sharing Perspectives” from the art/science research collaboration, Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting. Sharing Perspectives (SP) is developed as a score, inspired by choreography and the postmodern dance form ...
Andreas Løppenthin +4 more
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Colonel Wily’s Brainchild: The Origins of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa’s Cartier Square Drill Hall, 1880–1896 [PDF]
Since 1996 the Canadian War Museum (CWM) has been a major partner with the Wilfrid Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in the production of Canadian Military History.
Pulsifer, Cameron
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Though This be Madness: Heritage Methods for Working in Culturally Diverse Communities [PDF]
In 1998, the NSW Migration Heritage Centre was conceived by the NSW Government as a virtual heritage centre to help ageing former migrants tell their stories.
Petersen, John
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Landscape History and Theory: from Subject Matter to Analytic Tool [PDF]
This essay explores how landscape history can engage methodologically with the adjacent disciplines of art history and visual/cultural studies.
Birksted, Jan Kenneth
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DNA extraction from museum specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera. [PDF]
At the same time that molecular researchers are improving techniques to extract DNA from museum specimens, this increased demand for access to museum specimens has created tension between the need to preserve specimens for maintaining collections and ...
Andersen, Jeremy, MILLS, Nicholas J
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Characterising online museum users: a study of the National Museums Liverpool museum website [PDF]
Museums are increasing access to their collections and providing richer user experiences via web-based interfaces. However, they are seeing high numbers of users looking at only one or two pages within 10 s and then leaving. To reduce this rate, a better understanding of the type of user who visits a museum website is required.
David Walsh +3 more
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The Great Albatross Philippine Expedition and Its Fishes [PDF]
The Philippine Expedition of 1907-10 was the longest and most extensive assignment of the Albatross's 39-year career. It came about because the United States had acquired the Philippines following the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the bloody ...
Smith , David G., Williams, Jeffrey T.
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Faunistic spider collections in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: The collection of Erich Hesse [PDF]
The ‘Hesse collection’ of spiders (Araneae) and harvestmen (Opiliones) in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is documented. Biographical notes on Erich Hesse – a former arachnid curator at the museum (1921–1940) – are provided.
Dunlop, Jason A. +2 more
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A Constructed Situation and a Cotton Banner
In 2009, British artist Jeremy Deller’s work It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq entered the permanent collections of three US museums. It is described by the collecting institutions as a “constructed situation and cotton banner.” Curatorial ...
Joey Orr
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