Museum Education

Reading List

By Victoria and Albert Museum, published 1st January 2010

Museum Education Reading List provided by the Victoria and Albert Museum

Allen, D. A. 'Museums and Education.' Museums in Modern Life: Seven Papers Read Before the Royal Society of the Arts in March, April and May 1949, 86-106. London: RSA, 1949. NAL pressmark: 22.N.17

American Association of Museums. Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 1992.

Anderson, David. A Common Wealth: Museums in the Learning Age, a Report to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. London: Stationery Office, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.150941 AND

Anderson, John R., Lynne M. Reder, and Herbert A. Simon. 'Situated Learning and Education.' Educational Researcher 25 (1996): 5-11.

Ausubel, David Paul. Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

Belcher, Michael. Exhibitions in Museums. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991. NAL pressmark: SL 069.53 BEL

Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge, 1995. NAL pressmark: SL 069 BEN

Bicknell, Sandra, and Graham Farmelo, eds. Museum Visitor Studies in the 90s. London: Science Museum, 1993. NAL pressmark: NB.96.0753

Bitgood, Stephen, Beverly Serrell, and D. Thompson. 'The Impact of Informal Education on Visitors to Museums'. In Informal Science Learning: What the Research Says about Television, Science Museums, and Community Based Projects, edited by Valerie Crane. Dedham: Research Communications Ltd., 1994.

Durbin, Gail, ed. Developing Museum Exhibitions for Lifelong Learning. London: Stationary Office, 1996. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 DEV

Falk, John H., and Lynn D. Dierking. Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning. Walnut Creek, CA: Oxford: AltaMira Press, 2000. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 FAL

Falk, John H., and Lynn D. Dierking. The Museum Experience. Washington, DC: Whalesback Books, 1992. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 FAL

Field, John. Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order. 2nd rev. ed. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham, 2006.

Fosnot, Catherine Twomey, ed. Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives and Practice.New York : Teachers College Press, 1996.

Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Centres for Social Change: Museums, Galleries, and Archives for All. London : Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2000. NAL pressmark: ED 069.1508693 DEP

Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The Value of Museums. Leicester : Leicester Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, 2004. NAL pressmark: ED 069.15 HOO

Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Learning Power of Museums: a Vision for Museum Education. London : Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2000. NAL pressmark: ED 069.15 DEP

Great Britain. Department of Education and Science. Museums in Education . London : HMSO, 1971. NAL pressmark: 83.TT Box III

Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission. Managing Museum and Gallery Education. London : Museums and Galleries Commission, 1996. NAL pressmark: SL 069.1 MAN

Hein, George E. 'The Constructivist Museum.' Chap. 7 in The Educational Role of the Museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. 2nd ed. New York : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hein, George E. Learning in the Museum. London : Routledge, 1998. NAL pressmark: NC.98.1550

Hein, George E., and Mary Alexander. Museums: Places of Learning. Washington : American Association of Museums Education Committee, 1998.

Hergenhahn, B. R., and Matthew H. Olson. An Introduction to Theories of Learning. 4th ed. Eaglewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Hinton, Morna. 'The Victoria and Albert Museum Silver Galleries II: Learning Style and Interpretation Preference in the Discovery Area.' Museum Management and Curatorship 17, no.3 (September 1998): 253-94. NAL pressmark: PP.13.H

Hood, Marilyn G. 'Staying Away: Why People Choose Not to Visit Museums.' Museum News 61, no. 4 (April 1983): 50-7. NAL pressmark: PP.3.s

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 'Communication in Theory and Practice'. Chap. 2 In The Educational Role of the Museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, ed. The Educational Role of the Museum. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 'Education, Communication and Interpretation: Towards a Critical Pedagogy in Museums.' Chap. 1 In The Educational Role of the Museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 'Learning in Art Museums: Strategies of Interpretation.' Chap. 3 In The Educational Role of the Museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. London : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. Museum and Gallery Education. Leicester : Leicester University Press, 1991. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 'Museum Learners as Active Postmodernists: Contextualising Constructivism.' Chap. 5 In The Educational Role of the Museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 HOO

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 'Museums and Interpretive Communities.' Paper presented at Musing on Learning Seminar, Australian Museum, 20 April 1999.

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. Museums and Their Visitors. London : Routledge, 1994. NAL pressmark: 207.E.32

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, ed. Museums, Media, Message. London : Routledge, 1995. NAL pressmark: SL 069.5 MUS

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, ed. Working in Museum and Gallery Education: 10 Career Experiences. Leicester : Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 1992.

Lewis, Brian N. 'The Museum as an Educational Facility'. Museums Journal 80, no. 3 (December 1980): 151-55. NAL pressmark: PP.13.B

Lord, Gail Dexter, and Barry Lord, eds. The Manual of Museum Planning. 2nd ed. London : Stationery Office, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069 MAN

McLean, Kathleen. Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions. Washington, DC : Association of Science-Technology Centers, 1993.

McManus, Paulette M. 'Oh, Yes, They Do: How Museum Visitors Read Labels and Interact with Exhibit Texts.' Curator 32, no. 3 (September 1989): 174-89. NAL pressmark: PP.4.K

Meszaros, Cheryl. 'Now THAT is Evidence: Tracking Down the Evil "Whatever" Interpretation'. Visitor Studies Today 9, issue 3 (winter 2006): 10-15.

Miers, Sir Henry A. Museums and Education: a Paper Read before the Royal Society of Arts, on January 23rd, 1929. London : Royal Society of the Arts, 1929. NAL pressmark: 21.B Box

Miles, R. S., M. B. Alt, D. C. Gosling, B. N. Lewis, and A. F. Tout, eds. The Design of Educational Exhibits. 2nd ed. London : Allen & Unwin, 1988. NAL pressmark: SL 069.53 MIL

Moffat, Hazel, and Vicky Woollard, eds. Museum and Gallery Education : a Manual of Good Practice. London : Stationery Office, 1999. NAL pressmark: SL 069.15 MUS

Pittenger, D. J. 'The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.' Review of Educational Research 63 (1993): 467-88.

Pope-Hennessey, Sir John. 'Design in Museums'. Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts 123, no. 5231 (October 1975): 717-27. NAL pressmark: PP.15.D

Rathmann, Carl Gustav. The Educational Museum of the St. Louis Public Schools. Washington : Smithsonian Press, 1915.

Schmeck, Ronald R. Learning Strategies and Learning Styles. New York : London : Plenum Press: 1987.

Screven, C. G. 'Educational Evaluation and Research in Museums and Public Exhibits: a Bibliography.' Curator 27, no. 2 (June 1984): 147-65. NAL pressmark: PP.4.K

Screven, C. G. 'Exhibitions and Information Centers : Some Principles and Approaches.' Curator 29, no.  2 (June 1986): 109-37. NAL pressmark: PP.4.K

Screven, C. G. The Measurement and Facilitation of Learning in the Museum Environment: an Experimental Analysis. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution, 1974.

Serrell, Beverly. Paying Attention: Visitors and Museum Exhibitions. Washington, DC : American Association of Museums, 1998. NAL pressmark: ED 069.1 SER

Victoria and Albert Museum. Education for All. London : V&A, 1992. NAL pressmark: VA.1992.Box 0001

Wilk, Christopher, and Nick Humphrey, eds. Creating the British Galleries at the V&A: a Study in Museology. London : V&A, 1994. NAL pressmark: 604.AE.0507

Yahya, I. Museum Learning, the Museum Visitor, the Museum Visit: an Investigation into their Understanding and its Implications for the Effective Exhibition Development in Indian Science Museums. Leicester : University of Leicester, 1997.

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