Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators : Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis.

Intro -- Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators: Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword: Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators: Diverse Audiences, Challenging Topics, and Reflective Praxis -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1: Introduction: Museum Educators Supporting Diverse Audiences: Parents, Teenagers and Family Groups -- 1. Home Educators' Views of Museums: Challenges and Opportunities of Supporting Non-Traditional Learning -- 2. On Our Own: Family Experiences in Art Museums Outside of Facilitated Programming -- 3. Parents' Perspectives about Exhibit Label Content in a Science Museum -- 4. Sparks of Learning: Insights from an After-School Science Museum Program for Teenagers -- Section 2: Introduction: Museum Educators Practice: Challenging Topics and Unique Audiences -- 5. Navigating Sensitive Topics with Children: An Inquiry of Museum Educators Facilitating Conversations about Death with Children -- 6. Children's Attitudes toward Specimens at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum -- 7. Museums and Marginalized Historical Narratives: Learning the Truth about Indian Residential Schools at the UBC Museum of Anthropology -- 8. Training Scientists to Communicate Science to the Public in a Science Museum Setting -- 9. Identification of Potential Methods of Professional Support for Museum Educators Working with Young Children with Cognitive Disabilities in Museums -- Section 3: Introduction: Museum Educators' Praxis: Learning through Ones' Own Reflexive Research -- 10. Representing Other: Finding Reflections of Myself from a Space In-Between a Garden and a Museum -- 11. Using Informal Learning Spaces to Increase Meaning-Making: Museum Visits with Young Adults -- 12. Embodied Tensions: Digging into Agriculture at the BC Farm Museum.

13. Ecologies of Youth Art Apprenticeship: A Case Study of the Burnaby Art Gallery's Artist Apprenticeship Project -- 14. Creating Meaningful Experiences in Art Museums: A Study of Museum Educators' Perceptions of Meaningful Engagement with Works of Art -- Contributors -- Index.

The book consists of 20 chapters. Each chapter focuses on a certain issue related to the relevance of chemistry education.

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