Museum Visits Re-visited
- During the last three years there have been some important developments in reflecting about the use of museum objects as learning resources. The efforts made by museums to meet the needs of school pupils appeared to be rather variable. Although museum objects can be of great value for the learning of skills such as observation, communication and deduction, schools rather seemed to stress the informational dimension of learning from objects. In general, museum professionals opted for a similar approach. David Wills stresses the importance of the exploration of an object by setting very specific questions (about the object itself, not about its label). What might be even more valuable is the use of the objects as evidences for wider historical issues. These ideas have been worked out in a worksheet for the gallery "Time Present and Time Past".
| Author: | David Wills |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-7817 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/925 |
| Parent Title (English): | Information: International Society for History Didactics |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 1998 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2008/06/17 |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 128 |
| Last Page: | 133 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Collections: | Universität Augsburg / Informations / Mitteilungen / Communications - Herausgeber: International Society for History Didactics / Information 02/1998 / Museum Visits Re-visited (Wills, David) |
