Building a Collaborative Learning Research Agenda for Natural History Museums in the UK

为英国自然历史博物馆制定协作学习研究议程

• 批准号: ES/L00125X/2
• 负责人: Justin Dillon
• 金额: $ 2.63万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL00125X%2F2
• 关键词: Building; Collaborative; Learning; Research; Agenda

Building a Collaborative Learning Research Agenda for Natural History Museums in the UK is a series of working seminars organised by two internationally significant UK institutions - King's College London (KCL) and the Natural History Museum, London (NHM). The seminar series brings together museum education practitioners, pre-eminent academics and funding bodies to unpick the complexities of learning in natural history environments and to develop a research agenda that will address critical questions around learning in natural history museums* within the UK.The purpose of the seminars is to develop and disseminate a collaborative learning research agenda to inform how natural history museums can best use their resources to support learning in the 21st century. Learning in such places has been under-researched and under-theorised, hampering the field's ability to address policy and broader concerns around impact. When addressed, the research agenda will help transform what natural history museums do for and with their audiences. We will articulate and prioritise topics and issues that natural history museums most need to address in order to serve diverse audiences. These topics are likely to include:The current landscape of informal science learning;Models for facilitation/interaction between the public and museum educators, scientists and curators;Learning from objects and the role of authenticity in learning programmes;Audience research to more fully understand audiences and their needs; and,New technologies for discovery, learning and social engagement.Museums and academics in the US have begun to address questions surrounding these topics but they remain under-researched in the UK. This seminar series is a timely response to urgent issues surrounding learning from natural history objects in the UK context. We will hold six seminars at the NHM during the course of the grant. Numbers will be limited to 30-35 participants in order to facilitate high quality, in-depth participation. Attendees will include arts, humanities and learning researchers as well as museum and educational professionals. An advisory group will also meet following each seminar to support translation of the discussions into the emergent research agenda, as well as to help develop subsequent seminars. Developing this research agenda is of strategic benefit both to academics and to museum practitioners, as it explores and extends relevant theoretical perspectives that have the potential to transform our understanding of learning within the museum sector. The series brings together individuals from a wider range of both academic and informal settings than have previous meetings, thus providing fruitful ground for the exploration of theoretical perspectives to underpin the developing research agenda. Perspectives from fields such as sociology and anthropology will inform the development of the research agenda itself and will highlight new methodologies well suited to exploring potential research questions.The series and subsequent research will benefit museum practitioners and academics with interests in learning in informal settings and museology, as well as in related fields, such as sociology and anthropology. With its multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives, the research ultimately emerging from these seminars will help the field respond to questions about learning in museums with natural history collections and in other museums as well.*The term 'museum' is used to refer to settings with natural history collections (primarily, but not exclusively natural history museums), but can incorporate zoos, as institutions that hold specimens for natural history education.

建立一个合作学习研究议程自然历史博物馆在英国是一系列的工作研讨会组织的两个国际重要的英国机构-国王学院伦敦（KCL）和自然历史博物馆，伦敦（NHM）。该系列研讨会汇集了博物馆教育从业者，杰出的学者和资助机构，以解开在自然历史环境中学习的复杂性，并制定一个研究议程，将解决围绕自然历史博物馆学习的关键问题 * 研讨会的目的是制定和传播合作学习研究议程，以告知自然历史博物馆如何最好地利用其支持21世纪学习的资源。在这些地方学习一直没有得到充分的研究和理论化，阻碍了该领域解决政策和更广泛的影响问题的能力。当解决时，研究议程将有助于改变自然历史博物馆为观众所做的事情。我们将阐明和优先考虑自然历史博物馆最需要解决的主题和问题，以服务于不同的观众。这些主题可能包括：非正式科学学习的现状;公众与博物馆教育工作者、科学家和策展人之间的促进/互动模式;从实物中学习和真实性在学习计划中的作用;为更充分地了解观众及其需求而进行的观众研究;以及新的发现技术，美国的博物馆和学术界已经开始解决围绕这些主题的问题，但在英国仍然研究不足。这一系列研讨会是对英国自然历史对象学习的紧迫问题的及时回应。在赠款期间，我们将在NHM举办六次研讨会。与会者人数将限制在30-35人，以促进高质量、深入的参与。与会者将包括艺术，人文和学习研究人员以及博物馆和教育专业人士。一个咨询小组也将在每次研讨会后举行会议，以支持将讨论转化为紧急研究议程，并帮助制定随后的研讨会。制定这一研究议程对学术界和博物馆从业者都具有战略意义，因为它探索并扩展了相关的理论观点，这些理论观点有可能改变我们对博物馆领域学习的理解。该系列汇集了来自更广泛的学术和非正式环境的个人比以前的会议，从而为理论观点的探索提供了富有成效的基础，以支持发展中的研究议程。社会学和人类学等领域的观点将为研究议程本身的发展提供信息，并将突出适合探索潜在研究问题的新方法。该系列和后续研究将使博物馆从业者和对非正式环境和博物馆学以及相关领域（如社会学和人类学）感兴趣的学者受益。凭借其多个理论和方法论的观点，这些研讨会最终产生的研究将有助于该领域回答有关自然历史收藏博物馆和其他博物馆的学习问题。“博物馆”一词用于指自然历史收藏的设置（主要是但不完全是自然历史博物馆），但也可以包括动物园，作为保存自然历史教育标本的机构。