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What Makes Learning Fun? presents a set of tested principles and strategies for the design of museum exhibits, with concrete examples of design successes and failures drawn from the author's many years in the field.
Deborah L. Perry has taken a fresh look at an old question-how visitors learn in museums-and given us a set of very practical strategies and tools for designing exhibits. This is no ordinary how-to guide, however. One of the great strengths of the book is that it is grounded in a whole history of solid research. Making learning fun is serious business, but Perry manages to practice what she preaches, giving us a book that is engaging, easy to use, and eminently applicable to museum work today. -- Lisa Roberts, Independent Consultant for Museums The Selinda Model of visitor learning provides a powerful, robust, and flexible construct for considering and facilitating learning that is useful for the ambitious and often nuanced aspirations of professionals working in informal learning environments. I've followed the development of Deborah Perry's ideas and her model of learning for decades and am thrilled that I can finally share her ideas with colleagues and students. -- Kris Morrissey, University of Washington Deborah Perry's book offers a coherent approach to designing engaging learning experiences in museums, science centers, zoos, and the like. The book lays out a clear design process and offers, within this design framework, a series of applied principles that are well supported in the visitor studies literature. Deborah's years of experience in combination with thoughtful analysis of the learning process have resulted in a useful manual for practitioners, be they educators, exhibit designers, or evaluators. -- Stephen Bitgood, Jacksonville State University
| List of Strategies | p. ix |
| List of Figures | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Understanding Visitor Experiences | p. 9 |
| Visitors, Conversation, and Learning | p. 11 |
| Interpretive Activism | p. 27 |
| The Selinda Model of Visitor Learning | p. 39 |
| Designing Visitor Experiences | p. 71 |
| Communication | p. 73 |
| Collaboration | p. 75 |
| Guidance | p. 86 |
| Curiosity | p. 97 |
| Perceptual Curiosity | p. 98 |
| Intellectual Curiosity | p. 102 |
| Interest | p. 108 |
| Confidence | p. 117 |
| Success | p. 118 |
| Expediency | p. 139 |
| Challenge | p. 149 |
| Expectations | p. 150 |
| Uncertainty | p. 155 |
| Control | p. 161 |
| Choice | p. 162 |
| Power | p. 165 |
| Play | p. 169 |
| Imagination | p. 173 |
| Sensory Exploration | p. 176 |
| Descriptions of the Colored Shadows and The Color Connection Exhibits | p. 181 |
| Overview of Original Research | p. 199 |
| The What Makes Learning Fun? Framework | p. 203 |
| Sample Knowledge Hierarchies | p. 209 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 213 |
| References | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 229 |
| About the Author | p. 241 |
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ISBN: 9780759108844
ISBN-10: 0759108846
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 4th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.9 x 15.7
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.531
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