Friday, October 02, 2009

Museum Educators and Learning Communities

(USA)

Research questions: To what extent do museum educators believe they belong to a learning community? To what extent do museum educators include as part of their regular practice: mentoring, self-reflection, diagnostic assessment of their teaching, researched-based collaboration, job-embedded professional development, discussion of and contribution to current museum and museum education literature, and use data to drive their curricular or interpretive program development?

Data presentation: Report suitable for publication

Principal researcher: Tina Nolan

Sites: I will be collecting survey data from museum educators across the US and Canada who participate in museum education list serves.

Time span: July 2009 - September 2009

Contact: Tina.Nolan@nl.edu

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