TY - BOOK ID - 78143746 TI - Learning conversations in museums AU - Leinhardt, Gaea AU - Crowley, Kevin AU - Knutson, Karen PY - 2002 SN - 1135640386 1283102668 9786613102669 1410606627 9781410606624 9780805840520 0805840524 9781135640385 9781135640330 1135640335 9781135640378 1135640378 9781138866829 1138866822 9781283102667 6613102660 PB - Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum DB - UniCat KW - Museums KW - Museum exhibits KW - Museum visitors KW - Museum techniques KW - Non-formal education. KW - Informal education KW - Informal learning KW - Nonformal education KW - Adult education KW - Educational innovations KW - Occupational training KW - Gap years KW - Prior learning KW - Public institutions KW - Cabinets of curiosities KW - Museology KW - Visitors to museums KW - Persons KW - Museum attendance KW - Display techniques KW - Displays, Museum KW - Museum displays KW - Exhibitions KW - Education KW - Educational aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Education. KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Technique KW - Visitors KW - Didactics KW - museology KW - Applied museology KW - Museography KW - Museum practices KW - Museum studies KW - Museum studies. KW - Schools of museum studies KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143746 AB - What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do not come to museums to talk, but they often do talk. This talk can drift from discussions of managing the visit, to remembrances of family members and friends not present, to close analyses of particular objects or displays. This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment. ER -