Understanding Museum Visitors

小行星9553584 根据探索性研究小额赠款指导方针，乔治海因博士将在博物馆环境中进行非正式学习的基础研究。 海因将检查文献，并提供1）什么是已知的博物馆游客的动机，他们如何学习，他们如何对博物馆的智力，社会和物理环境的反应和2）什么是已知的理论和方法的博物馆研究。 然后，这些结果将与建构主义学习理论的详细讨论联系起来，他将探索如何使用该理论来解释游客行为，以及如何将其用作 博物馆学习研究指南。 研究将在英国和美国进行，并将包括用英语撰写的相关文献的全面审查，以及与其他从事博物馆环境中非正式学习理论的专业人士的广泛磋商。 这项研究将产生一本专著，广泛散发。 虽然特别侧重于在博物馆环境中学习，但该专着将对所有对非正式学习过程感兴趣的人感兴趣，其中包括博物馆专业人员，正式教育工作者，社区计划的执行人员和媒体制作人。

9553584 Hein Under the Small Grants For Exploratory Research guidelines, Dr. George Hein will carry out basic research in informal learning in a museum setting. Dr. Hein will examine the literature and provide a summary of 1) what is known about the motivations of museums visitors, how they learn and how they react to the intellectual, social, and physical context of museums and 2) what is known about the theory and methods of visito research in museums. These results will then be linked to a detailed discussion of constructivist learning theory and he will explore how that theory can be used to explain visitor behavior and how it can be used as a guide to research in learning in museums. Research will be carried out in England and the United States and will include a thorough review of the relevant literature written in English and extensive consultations with other professionals working on the theory of informal learning in museum settings. The research will result in a monograph that will be broadly disseminated. Although focused particularly on learning in a museum setting, the monograph will be of interest to all those interested in the informal learning process which includes museum professionals, formal educators, executives of community-based programs, and media producers.