Format:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781410604132
Content:
Originating in a recent NSF conference held at the University of Michigan, this book examines the latest ideas about how children interact with objects and through that interaction acquire new understandings, attitudes, and feelings. Although museum education provides the primary setting within which object-centered learning is explored, the analyses apply to a wide range of learning environments. Despite the demonstrated importance of object-centered learning for both academic and life-long learning, until now there has been little psychological research on the topic. Key features of this outstanding new book include: *Cross-disciplinary Focus--This is the first book to examine object-centered learning using the perspectives of such diverse fields as science, history, literacy, and art. *Museum Focus--The explosion of interest in museums of all kinds provides a natural launching pad for conceptual and practical discussions of object-based learning and informal learning environments. Vignettes--In order to ground the conceptual analyses, each chapter includes vignettes describing people actively engaged with objects in a specific setting. This volume is appropriate for advanced students and researchers in educational psychology, cognitive psychology, science education, and persons directly involved in museum education.
Content:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Studying Learning With Objects in Contexts -- Chapter One: The Role of Context in Children's Learning from Objects and Experiences -- Chapter Two: The Role of Objects in Active, Distributed Meaning-Making -- Chapter Three: Children Learning with Objects in Informal Learning Environments -- Chapter Four: The Authentic Object? A Child's-Eye View -- Chapter Five: When the Object is Digital -- Chapter Six: Through the Garden Gate -- Chapter Seven: Epistemological Issues about Objects -- Part II: Discipline-Based Explorations of Objects -- Chapter Eight: Learning With, Through, and About Art -- Chapter Nine: Placing Objects Within Disciplinary Perspectives -- Chapter Ten: Fostering an Investigatory Stance -- Chapter Eleven: Objects and Learning -- Chapter Twelve: Reading Objects -- Chapter Thirteen: Cloaking Objects in Epistemological Practices -- Part III: Conversations About Objects -- Chapter Fourteen: Object-Based Learning and Family Groups -- Chapter Fifteen: Maps, Globes, and Videos -- Chapter Sixteen: Pathways Among Objects and Museum Visitors -- Chapter Seventeen: Objects of Learning, Objects of Talk -- Chapter Eighteen: Leveling the Playing Field through Object-Based Service Learning -- Chapter Nineteen: The Object of Experience -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780805839272
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780805839272
Additional Edition:
Print version Perspectives on Object-centered Learning in Museums
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=234126
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