Exploring science in museums
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Exploring science in museums
(New research in museum studies : an international series / series editor, Susan Pearce ; reviews editor, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 6)
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  Tochigi
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The relationship between science and the public is one of the great contemporary debates, involving questions of accountability, resource, the construction of knowledge and its legal implications. Mutual understanding between scientists and non-scientists is a key figure in the dialogue and here the interpretation of science in museums has a significant part to play.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Museums and geology, P.S. Doughty: the roller-coaster of museum geology, Simon Knell
- presenting science as product or as process - museums and the making of science, Ken Arnold
- a conflict of cultures - hands-on science centres in the UK museums, Ian Simmons
- science and its stakeholders - the making of science in American life, Arthur Molella and Carlene Stephens
- communication strategies in interactive spaces, Gillian Thomas and Tim Caulton
- mindful play! or mindless learning! modes of exploring science in museums, Ibrahim Yahya
- science museums, or just museums of science?, John Durant. Part 2 Reviews edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: the artist and the museum series, Rebecca Duclos
- writing about exhibition catalogues - a literature review, Pnina Wentz
- the museum of women's art - towards a culture of difference, Beverley Butler
- health matters in science museums - a review, Ray Kaushik.
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