Transforming Practice

Introduction; Part 1 Perspectives on Change; Illuminating the Paradox of the Museum; Museum Education in Europe: Societies in Transition; Offering Safer Public Spaces; The Pursuit of Memory: Museums and the Denial of the Fulfilling Sensory Experience; Listening Outside and Within; Part 2 Responses in Practice; Addressing External Change with an Eye to Internal Transformation: Strategy and Practice Museum Education and the Genius of Improvisation; After the Elephant Roars: The Next Step in Diversification; Institution-Wide Change in Museums; The Future of Museums: Asking the Right Questions; Educators on Exhibit Teams: A New Role, a New Era; Beyond the Turf Battles: Creating Effective Curator-Educator Partnerships; Is There a Way to Make Controversial Exhibits That Work? Crafting Community-Based Museum Experiences: Process, Pedagogy, and Performance; One Museum Discovers the Web; The Eye of the Beholder; Toward Reconciliation: A Role for Museums in a Divided Society; Long-Term Museum Programs for Youth; How Museums Can Shape Public Education: Chrysalis Charter School; A Laboratory for Museum Learning: New York City Museum School Port Penn Interpretive Center: Trials and Transformations; Finding Public Purpose in a Public Place: The Missouri Historical Society; Part 3 Understanding: Theory, Research, and Evaluation; Paradigms Shifted: Comprehending the Meaning from Without Theory; A Framework for Organizing a Cumulative Research Agenda in Informal Learning Contexts; Situated Motivation and Informal Learning; Constructivism in Museums: How Museums Create Meaningful Learning Environments; Constructing Informed Practice; Exhibitions as Educators; Or, The Mundane and Magnificent Art of Stringing Beads; Making Meaning Together: Lessons from the Field of American History; Why the Public Understanding of Science Field Is Beginning to Listen to the Audience; The Personal Past in Public Space; Research and Evaluation; Professionalism and Research in Museum Education; Questioning the Entrance Narrative; Recalling the Museum Experience; The Quandaries of Audience Research; The Art Museum and the Elementary Art Specialist The Public Dimension Assessment: Reviewing the First 10 Years Part 4 Linkages: Building Knowledge; Transforming Practice through Change, Response, and Understanding; A Discovery Room for Adults; Borders and Encounters; Opening Up the Exploratorium; Strategies for Long-Term Community Partnerships