by Beverly Sheppard
Abstract
The publication of Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits has garnered well-deserved attention from the whole museum profession. It has become a point of discussion and debate, as well as a new tool for museum leadership and advocacy. Thinking of it only as a landmark report for science-based museums, however, would be a mistake and a lost opportunity. This report has important content for cross-disciplinary impact. It offers the gift of new language and thoughtful frameworks through which we can tell our individual stories more compellingly while supporting a shared definition of museums as valid places of learning. It gives fresh substance to the role of museums as effective learning resources.
- Beverly Sheppard (sheppard@ilinet.org) is president and CEO of the Institute for Learning Innovation.
10.1111/j.2151-6952.2010.00027.x About DOI
