"This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking’s ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and tho ..."
Learning from Museums(2nd Edition) (American Association for State and Local History) by John H. Falk, LynnD. Dierking, Falk/Dierking Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2018 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7598-0, ISBN: 1-4422-7598-7
"This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking’s ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and tho ..."
Museums and Families Being of Value by LynnD. Dierking Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Left Coast Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59874-076-9, ISBN: 1-59874-076-8
"This book analyzes the relationship between museums and families--how they view one another, how museums can facilitate free-choice learning in families, and how both together can serve as powerful allies to enact social and community change. Leading museum researcher Lynn Dierking identifies the family as a learning institution and details the implications for programming and exhibits in history, art, science, children's museums and ot ..."
Museums and Families Being of Value by LynnD. Dierking Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Left Coast Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59874-075-2, ISBN: 1-59874-075-X
"This book analyzes the relationship between museums and families--how they view one another, how museums can facilitate free-choice learning in families, and how both together can serve as powerful allies to enact social and community change. Leading museum researcher Lynn Dierking identifies the family as a learning institution and details the implications for programming and exhibits in history, art, science, children's museums and ot ..."
"John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking. Schaubel, L., Banks ... In L. Schauble & R. Glaser
(Eds.), Innovations in learning. Mahwah, NJ: ... institutions. Lanham, MD: AltaMira
Press, 229–46; Anderson, D., Storksdieck, M., & Spock, M. 2006. ... In J. Falk, L.
Dierking & S. Foutz (Eds.), In principle, in practice: Museums as learning
institutions. Lanham, MD: ... In J. Falk (Ed.), Free-choice science education: How
we learn ..."
"In the last section of the book, we provide a guide to the museum experience for
the museum professional. ... tried to use what we have learned about the
museum experience to inform the practice of museum interpretation and
exhibition design. ... of the common, but still poorly understood, use by the public
of places like science centers, art museums, history museums, ... Like most
education-oriented museum professionals, we have d ..."
"He helped to make such terms as “holding power,” “attracting power,” and “
museum fatigue” common in the museum literature. Miles, R. S., Alt, M. B.,
Gosling, D.C., Lewis, B. N., & Tout, A. F. (Eds.). (1982). The design of educational
exhibits. London: George Allen & Unwin. An important anthology of articles about
creating and evaluating effective educational exhibits. Munley, M. E. (1986).
Asking the right questions: Evaluation and ..."
The Museum Experience by John H. Falk Hardcover, Published 2017 by Taylor And Francis 2017-06-30, London ISBN-13: 978-1-138-40463-2, ISBN: 1-138-40463-2