This review of the literature on field trips to out-of-school settings will briefly summarize key
findings and discuss implications for future research and field trip practice. Cognitive and …

El propósito de este trabajo de revisión bibliográfica es examinar el debate actual sobre el
papel educativo que tienen las visitas escolares a los museos de ciencias en el aprendizaje …

Abstract Falk and Dierking's Contextual Model of Learning was used as a theoretical
construct for investigating learning within a free‐choice setting. A review of previous …

This study seeks to explore the visitor experience at heritage sites pre, during and post visit.
A conceptual model depicting the heritage visitor experience was proposed. A self …

What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach
this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum …

This article reports on attitude changes of 300 children, aged 10 or 11 years, from four
schools, who visited the UK National Space Centre. Attitudes toward science and space …

The school field trip constitutes an important demographic market for museums. Field trips
enlist the energies of teachers and students, schools and museums, and ought to be used to …

This article reports on part of a larger study of how 11‐and 12‐year‐old students construct
knowledge about electricity and magnetism by drawing on aspects of their experiences …

Research into learning in informal settings such as museums has been in a formative state
during the past decade, and much of that research has been descriptive and lacking a …

Although science centres and museums are important educational resources, school trips to
these places are not often conducted in a manner that could maximise learning. In …