Beschreibung
Focuses on visitor experience and learning innatural history dioramasDiscusses the function of dioramas as models, leading to a betterunderstanding of the scientific endeavourConstructs a comprehensive framework to understand how museum visitors translate the visual scene
Autorenporträt
Annette Scheersoi is a Professor in Biology Education at the University of Bonn,Germany. Her doctorate was on museums exhibition concepts and the use of differentmedia for communicating biological knowledge. Since 2005 she is a biology teachertrainerand researcher, first at Frankfurt University, then at the University of Cologneand now at Bonns university. Her research on biology learning focuses on interestdevelopment in out-of-school learning environments. Annette also develops learningmaterials for schools as well as for museums, zoos and botanic gardens. Sue Dale Tunnicliffe is a Reader in Science Education at UCL Institute ofEducation, University College London. She holds a bachelors degree fromWestfield College, University of London in Zoology and trained as a secondarybiology teacher at the universitys Institute of Education. After teaching ingrammar schools for a few years she had children and, wanting to find out moreabout how young children learnt science, particularly biology, she enteredprimary school teaching and is now interested in pre school learning, as well asanimals as exhibits. She set up and ran a new Primary Science and DesignTechnology advisory team for London Borough of Richmond and then becameHead of Education at the Zoological Society of London. She has worked at theBBC and in a cultural museum. Her doctorate was from Kings College,London Talking about animals: conversations of children in zoos, a museum anda farm. She has published widely.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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