The Educational role of the museum / edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

List of figures -- List of tables -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Part 1. Communication theory and museum exhibitions: 1. Museum communication: an introductory essay / Eilean Hooper- Greenhill -- 2. A new communication model for museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- 3. The process of communication / J. Morgan, P. Welton -- 4. The museum as a communicator: a semiotic analysis of the Western Australian Gallery, Perth / Robert Hodge, Wilfred D'Souza -- 5. Who goes to museums? / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- 6. Why don't people go to museums? / Tanya Du Bery -- 7. Problems in visitor orientation and circulation / Stephen Bitgood -- 8. Sending them home alive / Anita Rui Olds -- 9. Image and self image / Marista Leishman -- 10. Outline of a technology for effective science exhibits / Roger S. Miles, Alan F. Tout -- 11. Impact of research on the approach to the visiting public at the Natural History Museum, London / Roger S. Miles, Alan F. Tout -- 12. Cognitive psychology and interpretation: synthesis and application / Sam H. Ham -- 13. Collaboration: towards a more holistic design process / Hank Grasso, Howard Morrison -- 14. Learning to make an exhibition of ourselves / Pat Rabbitt (introduced by Andy Millward) -- 15. Cheap and cheerful: techniques for temporary displays / Mark O'Neill -- 16. Museum text as mediated message / Helen Coxall -- 17. Combating redundancy: writing texts for exhibitions / Margareta Ekarv -- 18. How old is this text? / James Carter -- 19. A writing checklist / J. Caner and D. Hillier -- 20. Worth a Hull lot more / Elizabeth Frostick -- 21. Art history for all the family / John Millard -- 22. Multiculturalism incarnate / Jane Peirson-Jones -- 23. Alternative perspectives / Gaby Porter -- 24. Science by stealth / Patrick Sudbury -- 25. Happy hands-on / Nick Winterbotham -- 26. History: in hand, low-tech and cheap / Harriet Purkis -- 27. Increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction / Betty Davidson, Candace Lee Heald, George E. Hein -- 28. A picture of visitors for exhibition developers / Sandra Bicknell, Peter Mann -- 29. Exhibit evaluation: taking account of human factors / Paul Alter, Rita Ward -- 30. A beginner's guide to evaluation / Phil Bull -- 31. Empowering visitors: focus group interviews for art museums / Benjamin E. Braverman -- 32. Monitoring and evaluation: the techniques / G. Binks, D. Uzzell -- Part 2. Learning theory and educational practice in museums: 33. Museum education / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- 34. The past, the present and the future: museum education from the 1790s to the 1990s / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- 35. Museum multicultural education for young learners / Joseph H. Suina -- 36. Children, teenagers and adults in museums: a developmental perspective / Nina Jensen -- 37. Teaching with collections / Lynn Plourde -- 38. Improving worksheets / Gail Durbin -- 39. Museumgoers: life-styles and learning characteristics / Charles F. Gunther -- 40. Passionate and purposeful: adult learning communities / Luke Baldwin, Sharlene Cochrane, Constance Counts, John Dolomore, Martha McKenna, Barbara Vacrr -- 41. Whose museum is it anyway? Museum education and the community / Jocelyn Dodd -- 42. Evaluation of museum programmes and exhibits / George E. Hein -- 43. Small scale evaluation / Tim Badman -- 44. Pupils' perceptions of museum education sessions / Marilyn Ingle -- 45. Education: at the heart of museums / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Index