ABSTRACT
Classic set of 45 articles from the first decade of the Journal of Museum Education and its predecessor, Roundtable Reports. Articles and essays focus on teaching strategies, introspective glances at the museum education field, reports of program successes and near successes, evaluative studies, and reviews of exhibitions and literature related to object-based learning. This title is sponsored by The Museum Education Roundtable. The Museum Education Roundtable (MER) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, dedicated to enriching and promoting the field of Museum Education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
LEARNING, PLAY AND FANTASY
An Interview with Elaine Gurian, Director, Visitors Center, Children’s Museum, Boston, Massachusetts Judy Herman and Barbara Fertig, Editors, Roundtable Reports
chapter |12 pages
INTERPRETATION FROM THE NON-EDUCATOR'S POINT OF VIEW
A Transcription of a Panel Discussion Panelists were Carl Scheele, Curator, Division of Community Life, National Museum of History and Technology; Bob Widder, Chief, Design Unit, National Air and Space Museum; and
chapter |3 pages
A DISTINCTIVE BRAND OF EDUCATION Museum Education: Monologue or Dialogue?
Thomas P. Weinland, Associate Professor of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Richard L. Bennett, Social Studies Teacher, Halls Hill School, Colchester, Connecticut
chapter |5 pages
TEACHING OR TOURING?
Patterson Williams, Administrator of School Programs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
chapter |27 pages
REBUTTALS AND A RESPONSE: TEACHING OR TOURING?
Dennis A. O'Toole, Curator of Education, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
chapter |14 pages
THE ADULT TOUR DILEMMA
Adrienne Horn, Project Director, AAM Education Committee, Lifelong Learning Seminars, San Francisco, California
chapter |4 pages
NOT EVERY NIGHT IS PROM NIGHT
Jane Buzzard, Social Studies Teacher, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland Marilyn Childress, Social Studies Teacher, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland (On leave at the National Archives, Office of Educational Programs, Washington, D.C.)
chapter |10 pages
OBJECT KNOWLEDGE: EVERY MUSEUM VISITOR AN INTERPRETER
Thomas J. Schlereth, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
chapter |4 pages
TO SPEAK THE NAME OF THE DEAD: EXHIBIT REVIEW
Ken Yellis, Associate Curator of Education, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
chapter |13 pages
NOURISHING THE LUNCH-HOUR CONNOISSEUR
David L. Butler, Education Coordinator, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
chapter |4 pages
HANDS ACROSS THE WATER: BOOK REVIEW
The Art Museum as Educator, Barbara Y. Newsom and Adele Z. Silver, editors, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1978. 830 pp. Helen Luckett, Department of Leisure Services, Museums and
chapter |30 pages
MUSEUM ED UCATION-POW ER AND FUTURE
Edeen Martin, Associate Director of Programs, Mid'America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri
chapter |6 pages
THE MUSEUM AND THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Nelson Graburn, Curator of North American Ethnology, Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California
chapter |12 pages
THE USE OF TIME AS A MEASURE OF VISITOR BEHAVIOR AND EXHIBIT EFFECTIVENESS
John H. Falk, Associate Director for Education, Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, Edgewater, Maryland
chapter |6 pages
EVALUATING DOCENTS:. . . AND MEASURING THE IMMEASURABLE
Barbara C. Fertig, Stonington, Connecticut
chapter |14 pages
CHANCE OR THE PREPARED MIND?
Eugene D. Gennaro, Associate Professor of Education, University of Minnesota and Director, National Science Foundation Out*of*School Science Experiences Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota Shirley Ann Stoneberg, Chemistry Teacher, Edina High School,
