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Adult Museum Programs
Burton, Hanly; Fellenz, Robert A.; Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Gittings-Carlson, Laura; Lewis-Mahony, Janet
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Description for Adult Museum Programs
Hardback. Enlivened with many examples and the words of program planners, instructors, and participants, this book can show you a whole new world for your museum programs, and help you design programs that will allow your adult learners to enter that exciting and potentially life-changing world. Series: American Association for State & Local History. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, references, index. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer and her co-authors have taken an important study and turned it into an intriguing, readable, and practical book. Adult learners provide a unique opportunity for museum educators. But what are adult learners looking for? What motivates them to take a class or attend a museum-sponsored activity? What do planners and instructors need to know to maximize the experience for participants? The authors analyzed a wide variety of programs from the perspective of planners, instructors, and participants. They discovered what works and what doesn't, and they've distilled this knowledge into twelve basic steps you can use to design truly ... Read more
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer and her co-authors have taken an important study and turned it into an intriguing, readable, and practical book. Adult learners provide a unique opportunity for museum educators. But what are adult learners looking for? What motivates them to take a class or attend a museum-sponsored activity? What do planners and instructors need to know to maximize the experience for participants? The authors analyzed a wide variety of programs from the perspective of planners, instructors, and participants. They discovered what works and what doesn't, and they've distilled this knowledge into twelve basic steps you can use to design truly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
American Association for State & Local History
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780759100961
SKU
V9780759100961
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Adult Museum Programs
Museum program planners and visitor studies professionals should turn their attention to this milestone book.... Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences is an important addition to the visitor-studies literature.... The integration of adult-education and visitor-studies theory, illustrated with the rich description of real participant experiences, provides a useful and readable resource for adult program planners, museum evaluators and informal-learning researchers....it ... Read more