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| Author: | Dierking, L.D. Luke, J.J. Büchner, K.S. |
| Title: | Science and technology centres - rich resources for free-choice learning in a knowledge-based society |
| Journal: | International Journal of Technology Management
2003 : VOL. 25:5, p. 441-459 |
| Index terms: | Education Knowledge Learning Museums |
| Freeterms: | Science centres |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Science and technology centres are responding to people's interest on the changes and development due to e.g. the shifting of world economies from industrial to information and knowledge based and the needs of free-choice learners by serving as rich resources for such learning. One key of the success in communicating complex science and technology concepts is through the use of familiar physical and social environments such as exhibitions to facilitate personal connections between the complex ideas and visitors' everydat lives. This view is supported in this article by outlining the contextual model of learning and presenting findings from two specific exhibition projects in two science centres. |
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