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• Date of publication Jun 22, 2016 Category: Commentary

  "Bird of another feather": re-envisioning professional development for museum learning experts

  by Maria Xanthoudaki

  The article draws on the case study of the European In-service training course ‘School and Science Museum: Cooperation for Improving Teaching, Learning and Discovering’ aiming to offer insights into the training of educators in museums. It discusses training and contributes suggestions in the context of the contemporary museum context as well as approaches to visitors' learning.

  Volume 15 • Issue 04 • 2016

• Date of publication Mar 21, 2013 Category: Commentary

  Reflecting on the role of informal learning and visitor experience in science museums

  by Maria Xanthoudaki

  This short comment presents a few suggestions for the enrichment of JCOM seen from the perspective of an informal learning expert.

  Volume 12 • Issue 01 • 2013

• Date of publication Jun 21, 2007 Category: Article

  Museums for Science Education: can we make the difference? The case of the EST project

  by Maria Xanthoudaki , Brunella Tirelli , Patrizia Cerutti , Sara Calcagnini

  This paper addresses the role of museums in education in science and technology through the discussion of a specific project entitled EST “Educate in Science and Technology”. The Project puts together methodologies and activities through which museums can be used as resources for long-term project work. In-service training for teachers, work in class with learning kits or with materials brought in by a Science Van, and visits to the museum are planned and developed jointly by museum experts and teachers. The Project proposes a teaching and learning model which sees the museum experience as central and integral part of a teaching and learning process with more effective outcomes. The analysis of the Project activities and methodologies is based on the work carried out at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, which perceives the learner (the visitor) at the heart of its educational methodologies and provision.

  Volume 6 • Issue 02 • 2007

• Date of publication Dec 21, 2005 Category: Commentary

  Beautiful guides. The value of explainers in science communication

  by Paola Rodari , Maria Xanthoudaki

  During the last annual conference of ECSITE (European Collaborative for Science and Technology Exhibitions; Helsinki, June 2005), for the first time two discussion sessions were devoted to explainers, the innumerable people – young students mainly – who welcome visitors at exhibitions, museums and festivals, who animate laboratories and science shows, who guide, explain and lately also stimulate and manage discussions and participatory procedures. Thanks to the involvement of the speakers, who agreed to submit a broadened version of their papers, JCOM is glad to host the proceedings of these meetings. A great deal has to be done yet in order to analyse the complex European context and to fully understand the explainer’s professional profile.

  History of the museums, the mediators and scientific education

  by Brigitte Zana

  Should explainers explain?

  by Antonio Gomes da Costa

  Training science centre Explainers. The Techniquest experience

  by Colin Johnson

  Who are the Explainers? A case study at the House of Experiments

  by Miha Kos

  Volunteers as explainers at the Finnish Science Centre Heureka

  by Marjatta Väkeväinen

  Literature review

  by Leonardo Alfonsi

  Volume 4 • Issue 04 • 2005