Table of Contents:
  • Creating a space for learning : curators, educators, and the implied audience / Karen Knutson
  • Two docents in three museums : central and peripheral participation / Mary Abu-Shumays and Gaea Leinhardt
  • Museums in family life : an ethnographic case study / Kirsten M. Ellenbogen
  • Talking to oneself : diaries of museum visits / Gaea Leinhardt, Carol Tittle, and Karen Knutson
  • Burning buses, burning crosses : student teachers see civil rights / Gaea Leinhardt and Sr. Madeleine Gregg
  • Looking through the glass : reflections of identity in conversations at a history museum / Joyce Fienberg and Gaea Leinhardt
  • Voices and images : making connections between identity and art / Catherine Stainton
  • Looking for learning in visitor talk : a methodological exploration / Sue Allen
  • Conversations across time : family learning in a living history museum / Ellen Rosenthal and Jane Blankman-Hetrick
  • Building islands of expertise in everyday family activity / Kevin Crowley and Melanie Jacobs
  • Negotiations of thematic conversations about biology / Doris Ash
  • Finding self in objects : identity exploration in museums / Soctt G. Paris and Melissa J. Mercer
  • Supporting science learning in museums / Leona Schauble ... [et al.].