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Theories of learning and pedagogy

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• Pedagogical approaches

• Theories of learning – in informal/cultural settings

• Contextual model of learning (activity)

• Free-choice learning

• Motivation

• Theory to practice (addressing challenges activity)

• Wrap-up

Session overview


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• Transmission/telling

• Integration into what learner already knows

• Inquiry

• Discussion/small group discussion

• Jigsaw techniques

• Visual thinking strategies (VTS)

• Other approaches?

Pedagogical approaches


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Theories and pedagogical strategies (Hein)

• Expository-didactic education

• Stimulus-response education

• Discovery learning

• Constructivism


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Theories and pedagogical strategies (Hein)

• Expository-didactic education

Transmission/telling

• Stimulus-response education

Transmission/telling

• Discovery learning

Inquiry, group discussion, jigsaw techniques

• Constructivism

Inquiry, group discussion, jigsaw techniques; Integration into what learner already knows


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Contextual Model of Learning


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Contextual Model of Learning

• Physical context

Advance organisers; design; reinforcing events & experiences outside the setting

• Sociocultural context

Within-group sociocultural mediation; facilitated mediation by others

• Personal context

Motivation & expectations; prior knowledge, interests and beliefs; choice & control


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• a relatively permanent change in thought or in behaviour that results from experience (Hohenstein & King, 2011)

• the process of taking in data through the senses, organising the data into a meaningful framework and using the data to change or support thought and behaviour (following Bloom)

• any process that leads to permanent capacity change and which is not solely due to biological maturation or ageing (Illeris, 2007)

Definition of learning


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• learning which most typically occurs while people visit museums or other cultural institutions, watch television, read a newspaper, talk with friends, attend a play, or surf the Internet. . . . We use the term free-choice learning to describe learning experiences which are non-sequential, self-paced, and voluntary. In other words, rather than defining learning by what it is not (non-formal), or where it occurs (informal), free-choice learning focuses on the characteristics of such learning--non-linear, personally motivated and most importantly, involving considerable choice on the part of the learner as to when, where, with whom, and what to learn.

‘Free-choice learning’ (Falk & Dierking)


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Motivation

• Extrinsic

• Intrinsic


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Motivation

• Extrinsic

Motivation that comes from outside the activity

(Performance orientation)

• Intrinsic

Activity is engaged in for its own sake

(Mastery orientation)


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• Consider a challenge that a cultural institution might face (e.g. Reaching families; reaching underserved audiences; addressing difficult or complex topics; interpreting or communicating abstract ideas; controversial topics; accessibility)

• Draw on theories of learning (from last week, plus this week) to consider how you might address that challenge

Activity


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• By placing interpretive authority in the hands of the individual, and further, by championing the “whatever” interpretation as the final and desired outcome of the museum visit, the museum not only justifies its failure to communicate, but also it absolves itself of any interpretive responsibility for the meanings it produces and circulates in culture.

Meszaros


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