Analysis of the educational potential of a science museum learning environment: visitors' experience with and understanding of an immersion exhibit.

Autor/in	Mortensen, Marianne Foss
Titel	Analysis of the educational potential of a science museum learning environment: visitors' experience with and understanding of an immersion exhibit.
Quelle	In: International journal of science education, 33 (2010) 4, S. 517-545Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1464-5289
DOI	10.1080/09500691003754589
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-255092
Schlagwörter	Museum
Abstract	Research pertaining to science museum exhibit design tends to be articulated at a level of generality that makes it difficult to apply in practise. To address this issue, the present study used a design-based research approach to understand the educational potential of a biology exhibit. The exhibit was considered an educational environment which embodied a certain body of biological knowledge (Biological Organization) in a certain exhibit type (Museographic Organization) with the intention of creating certain learning outcomes among visitors. The notion of praxeology was used to model intended and observed visitor outcomes, and the pattern of relationship between the two praxeologies was examined to pinpoint where and how divergences emerged. The implications of these divergences are discussed at the three levels of exhibit enactment, design, and conjecture, and theoretically based suggestions for a design iteration are given. The potential of the design-based research approach for educational exhibit design is argued.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2021/1