THE Group

The first Ecsite thematic group dedicated to building a learning community for explainers by investigating their roles and training practices.

THE group is an action-research project studying and working on the role of explainers in European science centres (subdivided into survey on communication practices and professional/institutional status), as a first step (and useful background) for deeper studies. The group is also monitoring and promoting best practices in the training of explainers (focusing on specific issues such as: facilitation of science and society dialogue, dealing with diverse communities and disabilities, science shows, inquiry-based learning, etc.).

Steering committee of THE Group:

Chairperson

• Maria Xanthoudaki, Director of Education and of International Relations, National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Milan Italy.

Members

• Miha Kos, Director, The House of Experiments, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Brad Irwin, Learning Operations Manager, Natural History Museum, London, UK
• Paola Rodari, Senior Research and Project Manager, SISSA Medialab, Trieste Italy
• Antonio Gomes da Costa, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
• Preeti Gupta , Senior Vice President, New York Hall of Science, USA
• Saiful Bahri, Director of Internal Programmes Department, Petrosains, The Discovery Science Centre, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
• Matteo Merzagora, ICS SISSA, Trieste Italy
• Sally Duensing, Visiting Professor, Kings College London, UK