Evaluating Early Learning in Museums: Planning for our Youngest Visitors

Evaluating Early Learning in Museums provides developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices for engaging early learners and their families in informal arts settings. It showcases a program at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and offers strategies for building strong community partnerships and audience relationships. The book draws parallels to current work being done at other museums in international contexts and illustrates how an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and practitioners can improve museum practices.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 116 pages
\n Publication date: 28 January 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Evaluating Early Learning in Museums is a comprehensive guide that presents developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices for engaging early learners and their families in informal arts settings. Written by early childhood education researchers and a museum practitioner, the book showcases the high-quality educational programs that can be offered to young children and their families through the case study of a program at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. The authors provide valuable strategies for building strong community partnerships and audience relationships, and they also survey evaluation tools for early learning programs. Moreover, they offer practical strategies to help museums around the world engage young children.

At the heart of this narrative is the seminal partnership that emerged between researchers and museum educators during the evaluation of a program for toddlers. The book illuminates the key components of the partnership and the subsequent evolution of family offerings at the museum, drawing parallels to current work being done at other museums in international contexts.

Through its interdisciplinary approach, Evaluating Early Learning in Museums illustrates how collaboration between researchers and practitioners can enhance museum practices. This book will be of interest to researchers and students studying museums and early childhood, as well as practitioners working in museums worldwide. By exploring the role of early learning in museums, the book contributes to the growing body of knowledge on the impact of cultural institutions on early childhood development and education.

\n Weight: 274g\n
Dimension: 143 x 223 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367355777\n \n