[Bcma-l] Education-related research and evaluation in BC science centres and museums

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

What's going on with education-related research and evaluation in
Canadian science centres and science museums? What are you working on?
Want to share it with others?

(This issue is in honour of both the annual gathering next week in
London, Ontario of the Canadian Association of Science Centres
http://www.canadiansciencecentres.ca/main.htm as well as the Science
Centre World Congress in Toronto later in June http://www.5scwc.org/ )

MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly e-newsletter, is compiling a
list of ongoing research and evaluation projects for the upcoming June
2008 issue. Listings by museum workers, faculty, and students at all
levels of study are welcome. This month's focus is work in science
centres and science museums but studies in institutions related to other
disciplines are equally welcome.  

If you wish to share information on your research or evaluation project
with others around the world, please send an e-mail to mem@mccastle.com
that includes:
- name of project
- question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words/labels to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please.


Check out research listings back to October 2007 at the MEM blog,
"FORUM: Research and Resources in Museum Education"
http://forum.mccastle.com . 

All listings are free of charge and displayed in their language of
origin. **Deadline for the June issue is Friday June 13, 2008.**

FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, May 2008: 

- Concepciones sobre adquisición y transmisión de conocimiento
científico en investigadores dedicados a la divulgación. [Conceptions
about scientific knowledge transmission and acquisition in researchers
as science communicators] (Brazil)

UPDATES on research listed in earlier isues of MEM:

- Evaluation of  Renaissance in the Regions-funded Education programme
at Stoke-on-Trent Museums (United Kingdom)[Available for download]

A complimentary copy of this Museum Education Monitor, May 2008, is
available upon request to mem@mccastle.com . 

Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss
your research. I look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor 
mem@mccastle.com                 
For more information about Museum Education Monitor visit
http://www.mccastle.com           


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