[can-talk] Seeking museum education roundtables and groups

	Museum Education Roundtable (MER), an American organization
established nearly 30 years ago and editors for the _Journal of Museum
Education_, is asking museum educators to come forward and let us know
if they are a part of a group of museum educators (formal or informal)
that meets to discuss museum practice, education practice, and/or
theoretical concerns facing museum educators. If you are a part of a
museum education roundtable/group or know of one, could you share with
us the region/city/town the group meets meet in; approximately how many
folks are in the group; and the respondent's contact information (Name,
email, and museum/cultural institution/nature center/park affiliation)?

MER's goals for this project are three fold:
1. To develop and advocate a network for the museum education groups to
tie into ongoing lines of communication 2. To help promote MER's mission
...to promote the role of museums and other cultural institutions as
primary resources for life long learning 3. To find out, for example,
the most current topics in discussion, "on the tables," so MER can be in
touch with current interests and concerns of museum educators at the
grass roots level

	MER's objective for this call is to connect with like-groups who
are having round table discussions. We realize the list-serv for
Museum-L, Museum Education Monitor and on-line services, the museum-ed
blog, and ed-talk, and so on, offer useful virtual connections. However,
the model for MER is the physical gathering of local museum educators
and this unique model is what we hope to make direct contact with.

Please respond to Julia Rose, jrose4 at lsu.edu . Thank you.

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