[can-talk] Museum Education Monitor - Call to list ongoing museum education research & evaluation in August issue

July 16, 2007

Who's researching museum education and interpretation? Who's evaluating
programs or events? Who's doing visitor research? What are you finding?

MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the e-newsletter, is now compiling a
list of ongoing research and evaluation projects on questions relating
to museum/gallery education or interpretation for our upcoming August
2007 issue. Work being done by students, academics, and practitioners
(paid and volunteer) is equally welcome.
 
If you wish to share your research or evaluation with others around the
world, please send an e-mail to mem at mccastle.com that includes:
- name of project
- research or evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented [report, article, dissertation,
program, training event, workshop, curriculum, plan for change, etc.]
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]
Deadline for this issue is *Friday, August 10, 2007.*

Listings are, of course, free of charge. Submissions are included in the
current MEM and catalogued afterwards in our archives, which now
contains over 1,200 entries. Full access to the MEM Archives is
available only to subscribers. However, time-limited guest passes are
available to students and interested others by contacting MEM at
mem at mccastle.com .

FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, June 2007:

- Active Living (AL): How Can Public Leisure Services (parks and
recreation) facilitate Health Canada's AL Agenda? (Canada)
- Taking Tea with the Masterpieces: Engaging Older People in Museums
(UK)
- Impact of museum/gallery art projects in youth offenders (UK)
- ArtsConnectEd II (USA)
- Visitor Expectation and Experience [Working title]: A Focus Study of
the MOMA exhibition "What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the
Collection" (USA)

uPDATES on research listed in earlier issues of MEM:
- Museum Access Pilot Project for People With Vision Loss(Canada) 
- Agricultural dioramas: their past, present and future (UK)
- Journeys Through Time: What School Children Learn from History Museum
Field Trips

A complimentary copy of this June 2007 issue of Museum Education Monitor
is available upon request to mem at mccastle.com .   

Please get in touch for more information about the call or to discuss
your research. I look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada
mem at mccastle.com                  
For background on Museum Education Monitor, visit
http://www.mccastle.com/museum.asp       

 (Please excuse cross-postings. I try to extend the call as widely as
possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
patience is appreciated. CC.}