This review of the literature on field trips to out-of-school settings will briefly summarize key
findings and discuss implications for future research and field trip practice. Cognitive and …

It has been argued that learning from flood experience contributes to flood resilience.
However, it is unclear what such a learning process involves, and it is debatable whether …

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies
and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational …

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly
topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy …

Abstract Falk and Dierking's Contextual Model of Learning was used as a theoretical
construct for investigating learning within a free‐choice setting. A review of previous …

It has been argued that visitors' pre‐visit “agendas” directly influence visits. This study
attempted to directly test the effects of different museum visit agendas on visitor learning …

Museums invest considerable resources in promoting and supporting elementary‐school
field trips, but remain skeptical about their educational value. Recent cognitive psychology …

Every learner in science is unique with diverse abilities. Teachers as well as educational
researchers have long recognized and used that understanding to varying degrees in their …

Education is a lifelong endeavor; the public learns in many places and contexts, for a
diversity of reasons, throughout their lives. During the past couple of decades, there has …

Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate,
in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical …