journal :: J. R. McGinnis, A. Collins (Eds.). (2009). Research on Motivation and Student Interest in Science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 46(2).

Journal of Research in Science and Teaching, the official journal of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, publishes reports for science education researchers and practitioners on issues of science teaching and learning and science education policy. Scholarly manuscripts within the domain of the Journal of Research in Scienc...

Tags: motivation, construct validity, interest, motivation, gender, risk

journal :: Harvey, M. (2009). Drama, Talk, and Emotion: Omitted Aspects of Public Participation. Science, Technology & Human Values, 34(2), 139-161.

This article argues that the quantitative and quasi-experimental approach to evaluating public participation exercises is deficient in at least two respects. First, casting participants in instrumental terms excludes that participants have an experience and that this may be dramatic and emotional. If people are to be invited, even obliged, to pa...

Tags: public engagment, genetically modified organisms

journal :: Sikora, M., Fischer, D., Serrell, B., Perry, D., Morris, K. (2009). New roles for evaluation at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Curator, 52(1), 45-65.

Tags: art, evaluation, case study, role, prototype, labels, formative

journal :: Tsybulskaya, D., Camhi, J. (2009). Accessing and incorporating visitors' entrance narratives in guided museum tours. Curator, 52(1), 81-100.

Museum visitors arrive at an exhibit or tour with their own individual experiences, memories and knowledge related to the subject — in a phrase, their “entrance narrative.” We tested what happens to participants in guided tours when the guide first accesses — by two different methods — the entrance narratives of their visitors, and then makes sp...

Tags: memory, tour, guide, engagement, narrative, meaning-making, personal

journal :: Smith, L. (2009). Identifying behaviors to target during zoo visits. Curator, 52(1), 101-115.

Although many zoos and zoo associations state the capability and importance of influencing the behavior of zoo visitors, the little research conducted to date gives limited support for these statements. Addressing this deficit involves more research, but zoos also need to design communication strategies with the specific purpose of influencing v...

Tags: zoo, behavior, conservation, communication, nominal group technique

report :: Needham, C., Wiehe, B., McCallie, E., Bell, L., Lohwater, T., Falk, J. H., Lehr, J. L., Lewenstein, B. V. (2009). Many experts, many audiences: Public engagement with science and informal science education. CAISE.

This report is the result of work over the last year by the CAISE Public Engagement with Science Inquiry Group. We are grateful to all of the members of the group for their contributions and to Larry Bell, Tiffany Lohwater, and Ellen McCallie for serving as lead authors of this report. CAISE Inquiry Groups help to strengthen and connect the i...

Tags: inquiry group, public engagement, caise, education, learning, teaching

journal :: Dean, D. (2009). Museums as conflict zones: the Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command. Museum and Society, 7(1), 1-15.

This paper examines a recent controversy at the new Canadian War Museum over its exhibition on the Allied Bomber Offensive campaign in the Second World War. Although recent surveys of the public's attitudes towards museums suggest that the public both trusts museums to get the story right and thinks museums are good places to deal with controver...

Tags: controversy, museum, war, exhibition, public attitude, court, law, legal

journal :: Illeris, H. (2009). Visual events and the friendly eye: modes of educating vision in new educational settings in Danish art galleries. Museum and Society, 7(1), 16-31.

New, experimental educational settings such as 'art laboratories', 'digital workshops' and 'theme-based tours' are important to the processes of change towards more inclusive practices, which have been initiated in many Danish art galleries. While traditional gallery education was constructed in order to stimulate the 'disciplined eye' or the 'a...

Tags: education, art, culture, perception, visual event

journal :: Allday, K. (2009). From changeling to citizen: learning disability and its representation in museums. Museum and Society, 7(1), 32-49.

This paper examines why museums, both currently and historically, have excluded material relating to people with intellectual impairments. The national picture is examined briefly before the focus shifts to three UK museums in York, Leeds and Colchester where curatorial attitudes to including and presenting material on learning disability are co...

Tags: disability, impairment, inclusion, discrimination, museum history

journal :: Message, K. (2009). Multiplying sites of sovereignty through Community and Constituent Services at the National Museum of the American Indian?. Museum and Society, 7(1), 50-67.

My twofold aim in this article is (i) to initiate discussion about issues of governance and sovereignty in order to strengthen lateral connections between the disciplines of museum studies and citizenship studies, and (ii) to examine the National Museum of the American Indian's capacity to challenge concepts of citizenship that reflect tradition...

Tags: American Indian, culture, citizen, intermediary, government