Understanding Museum Visitors

9553584 Hein根据探索性研究小额赠款指导方针，George Hein博士将在博物馆环境中进行非正式学习的基础研究。Hein博士将研究这些文献，并提供1)关于博物馆参观者的动机、他们如何学习以及他们如何对博物馆的智力、社会和物理环境做出反应的已知情况，以及2)关于博物馆参观研究的理论和方法的已知情况。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参观者的行为，以及如何将其用作博物馆学习研究的指南。将在英国和美国进行研究，包括彻底审查用英语编写的相关文献，并与从事博物馆非正式学习理论工作的其他专业人员进行广泛磋商。这项研究将产生一本将被广泛传播的专著。尽管这本专著特别关注博物馆环境中的学习，但所有对非正式学习过程感兴趣的人都会对此感兴趣，其中包括博物馆专业人员、正规教育工作者、社区项目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.