ABSTRACT
This chapter examines at how students can be encouraged to use these valuable learning resources for their own study as well as for enjoyment. The course, Informal Learning: Learning through Leisure' is an elective module of 12 three-hour-long weekly sessions for students in the second year of their undergraduate education degree programme at Roehampton, University of London. Students are encouraged to consider their motivation and expectations openly in class through safe, well-managed conversations, which allows students a platform to express their concerns and fears about the museum visits. Despite having discussed these positive reasons for bothering to pursue work in museum and gallery contexts, a significant minority of the group remained apathetic and approached the visits with a subdued air of indifference, or even with hostility. Explicit discussion about navigation in the museum is valuable and opportunities to both follow directions and design one's own route should be provided in ways that meet the needs of the group.
