TY - BOOK ID - 56716136 TI - Understanding interactions at science centers and museums : approaching sociocultural perspectives AU - Davidsson, Eva. AU - Jakobsson, Anders. PY - 2012 SN - 9789460917257 9460917259 9460917232 9789460917233 9460917240 9789460917240 9789460917233 9789460917240 9786613709592 128079920X PB - Rotterdam : ©2012 Sense Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Didactics KW - didactiek KW - Museum exhibits. KW - Museum visitors. KW - Museums KW - Visitors to museums KW - Persons KW - Museum attendance KW - Display techniques KW - Displays, Museum KW - Museum displays KW - Exhibitions KW - Museum techniques KW - Visitors KW - Science museums KW - Educational aspects. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Science KW - Science centers KW - Education KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56716136 AB - There is an increasing interest in understanding learning and knowledge development when visitors attend informal institutions, such as museums, science centers, aquariums and botanical gardens. But in what ways do visitors develop new knowledge, skills and awareness about displayed issues in these kinds of settings and how does the exhibition environment affect and scaffold learning processes? In this book, the authors turn their attention to visitors’ and staff members’ actions and dialogues during the visits in order to identify and study learning situations. A common approach is the use and development of socio-cultural and cultural-historical frameworks and theories as means for coming closer to the significance of interactions at different levels and in different contexts. The individual chapters cover learning interactions in relation to staff members’ roles and identities, family visits, exhibitions as resources for professional development and school visits. ER -