User:Kara0719/Museum education

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description: informal education and what is museum education

Description
Museum education falls under the broad category of informal education. This type of education has been defined as "...any organized educational activity outside the established formal system—whether operating separately [from] or as an important feature of some broader activity—that is intended to serve identifiable learning clienteles and learning objective". This definition was later broadened to include the idea that non-formal education is any systematic educative activity, organized outside from the official framework, to facilitate educative experiences for all people, regardless of age, genre, nationality, social, economic or health situation. Informal education broadens the definition of educational spaces to include learning that occurs in places like the home, national parks, zoos, and museums. Museum education has been set apart from other informal education largely due to education made available to museum educators and the specific learning objectives of the museums themselves.

Theory and practice: talk about ways it has been used, examples of different ways it looks in different museums and different strategies used maybe add subheadings with these subheadings and one that talks about the most engaging way to incorporate education/educational materials in a museum setting

Theory and Practice
Museum education is conducted in a wide variety of ways, and recently more effort has been taken to research these ways and their effectiveness in conveying information to the general public. The main way museums educate the public is through displays, poster, brochures, and activities conducted in or on their premises (citation). Examples include..... maybe do bullet-description ect

Studies have show that some effective methods for conveying information in informal spaces includes...... As technology has had a larger impact, it has become more integrated into museum education.

Museums have also changed their strategy towards getting new visitors and increasing visitor engagement. Many museums have turned to social media to help them stay connected to the general public, and many of these museums post informational questions and self-playing games that visitors can engage with to increase their interest in the part and learn a little bit about what that specific museum does.

Another conduit of museum education is museum outreach events. This can take the form of a traveling show as in.......... or a day with a specialized theme and materials as done with......

publications (add something for the intro)

professional organizations---fine as is