Equity in informal science education: Developing an access and equity framework for science museums and science centres

E Dawson - Studies in Science Education, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Informal science education (ISE) is a popular pursuit, with millions of people visiting science
museums, science centres, zoos, botanic gardens, aquaria, science festivals and more …

“Not designed for us”: How science museums and science centers socially exclude low‐income, minority ethnic groups

E Dawson - Science education, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores how people from low‐income, minority ethnic groups perceive and
experience exclusion from informal science education (ISE) institutions, such as museums …

[PDF][PDF] Perspective. Museums beyond neutrality

HJ Evans, L Nicolaisen, S Tougaard… - Nordisk Museologi, 2020 - journals.uio.no
Today, reduced public funding for museums prompts them to seek financial support from
other avenues. This poses further questions about neutrality, as exemplified by the recent …

History, memory and public life

A Maerker, S Sleight, A Sutcliffe - The past in the present, 2018 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Title: History, memory and public life: the past in the present/edited by Anna Maerker, Simon
Sleight and Adam Sutcliffe. Description: London; New York: Routledge, 2018. Identifiers …

The implied visitor in a planetarium exhibition

LB Nicolaisen, M Achiam - Museum Management and Curatorship, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Planetariums disseminate astrophysics, space technology and planetary science to the
public. These subject areas are often perceived as being 'hard science'and thus …

Gender inclusion/exclusion in science exhibitions: Theoretical framework and practical implications

M Achiam, HT Holmegaard - How People Learn in Informal Science …, 2023 - Springer
A realisation is growing among science museum practitioners and researchers that quick
fixes or one-off initiatives cannot accomplish engaging a broader diversity of publics in …

Ethnicity and gender in museum representations of human evolution: The unquestioned and the challenged in learners' meaning making

J Piqueras, M Achiam, S Edvall, C Ek - Science & Education, 2022 - Springer
Scientific representations of human evolution often embrace stereotypes of ethnicity and
gender that are more aligned with socio-cultural discourses and norms than empirical facts …

'Lt. Col Smith with unknown Bomb Girl': problematizing narratives of male battlefield heroism in Canadian military museums

N Taber - Critical Military Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, I analyse 15 Canadian military museums that tend towards a patriotic
antagonistic approach to war that favours a narrative of masculine heroism on the battlefield …

[图书][B] Experimental museology: Institutions, representations, users

M Achiam, M Haldrup, K Drotner - 2021 - library.oapen.org
Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum
interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume …

Experiencing nature at Weedon Island Nature Preserve: Discourses of duality, willful blindness and ecological nobility

RA Johns, J Beach - Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Weedon Island Nature Preserve in Florida houses an educational center, which
displays a visual and rhetorical narrative of local ecology and the lifeways of the region's …