Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think

纽约科学馆、学习创新研究所、纽约城市大学亨特学院以及五个区域科学中心/动物园合作伙伴将合作开发、实施和评估一个名为“野生思维：动物的真实想法”的项目。“它将为科学中心开发一个以研究为基础的巡回展览，探索动物认知和动物园的跨机构编程策略，作为伊势领域的案例研究。 该项目面向公众的主要目标是促进对人类和动物在认知方面的相似性的更深入理解，即，我们是如何思考的。《野性思维》将探讨两个相互关联的假设：（1）对动物如何思考的更深入了解将创造或加强动物和人类之间进化联系的意识;（2）这种强烈的联系感可以激发人们对野生动物和我们家园中动物福利的兴趣。 该项目将创建一个1,500平方英尺的巡回展览，其中有15-20个展览组件，在五个主要的科学中心与动物园合作伙伴一起为普通观众探索动物认知的各个方面。 该研究所学习创新项目将进行应用研究，将扩大展览的总结性评价的结果，通过调查是否变化的认识，理解和知识的行动是持续随着时间的推移和/或导致态度的变化，行为意图，和可观察到的行为。此外，与科学中心和动物园合作者的过程研究将提供一个分析，将确定有助于或抑制社区中的综合性当地非正式科学教育基础设施的因素。该项目还将进行探索性研究，以确定科学中心和动物园合作期间遇到的挑战和好处。

The New York Hall of Science, the Institute for Learning Innovation, Hunter College of the City University of New York, and a consortium of five regional science center/zoo partnerships will collaborate to develop, implement, and evaluate a project with the working title "Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think." It will develop a research-based traveling exhibition for science centers that explores animal cognition and cross-institutional programming strategies for zoos as a case study for the ISE field. The project's primary goal for public audiences is to foster a deeper understanding of similarities between people and animals in terms of cognition, i.e., how we think.Wild Minds will explore two interrelated hypotheses: (1) a deeper insight into how animals think will create or strengthen the awareness of an evolutionary link between animals and humans; and (2) that this sense of a strong connection can stimulate interest in the welfare of animals in the wild and in our homes. The project will create a 1,500 s.f. traveling exhibition with 15-20 exhibit components exploring aspects of animal cognition for general audiences at five major science centers with zoo partners. The Institute for Learning Innovation project will conduct applied research that will expand on the results of the summative evaluation of the exhibition by investigating whether changes in awareness, understanding, and knowledge about action are sustained over time and/or lead to attitudinal change, behavioral intention, and observable behavior. In addition, process research with the science center and zoo collaborators will provide an analysis that will identify factors contributing to or inhibiting an integrated local informal science education infrastructure in a community. The project will also conduct exploratory research to identify the challenges and benefits encountered during collaboration between science centers and zoos.