Learning
Ed SobeyEd SobeySarah FunkKim Ludwig-PetschDavid BrostromMaria Bruck
Traditional teaching and learning revolve around one person explaining content to others. This "sage on the stage" approach fails a large percentage of our audience. Research and experience shows that people learn best and want to continue...
Strategy & vision
Jane ChadwickAndrea BandelliLynn ScarffBronwyn Bevan
Evaluation is viewed by many as a necessary chore marginal to the work of museums. We spend time and money, often not enough, on evaluation to satisfy funders and for use in advocacy, but do we really learn, and does that learning instigate...
Strategy & vision
Bart Van de LaarMonique MouritsMikko MyllykoskiIan BrunswickHerbert MuenderPhil WinfieldLAURENT CHICOINEAUAnnette KlinkertAntti LahertoJan ApothekerPaul HixLucy AvraamidouMalvina ArtheauThierry Brassacmichael van der meer
A growing number of science centres aim to invite the public to be part of science itself. This requires science centres to rethink their relations with universities - real love or marriage of convenience? Academia can be a notoriously reluctant...
Learning
María MenéndezMarc MoutinAna NoronhaJose Antonio Gordillo Martorell
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Strategy & vision
Andrea BandelliMarta BiarnesJane Chadwick
Some of our science museums have opened their floors to real scientific research and encourage visitors to advance science by participating as experimental subjects.
At the Science Gallery Dublin, visitors smelt worn t-shirts and rated...
Learning
Jochen HungerAgnes Bauer
Not everyone is a maker*, yet everyone “makes” him- or herself through a process of learning. We acquire knowledge from different fields through different channels, in distinct places, with selected people and at certain times. However, some of...
Learning
Paul HixSherman RosenfeldLorenz KampschultePedro ReisGiulia Tasquier
Exhibitions provide great insights into scientific topics. But doesn’t being involved in the development of an exhibition provide an even deeper understanding of a question? Shouldn’t we make this experience accessible to young people, thus...
Science ♥ society
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Equity & Inclusion
Nathalie CapletIan BrunswickLauren SouterDon UndeenBaerbel AuffermannAnna Omedes
To thrive in the future, science centres & museums need to connect with increasingly wide and diverse communities. In our digital age, more people expect to participate actively, to create as well as to consume. We live in a ‘participatory...
Strategy & vision
Claudia GoebelKatrin VohlandKatrin VohlandDacha AtienzaCarole PalecoJeroen BruggeAmparo Leyman PinoFermín Serrano SanzPaulo MotaPia VivianiClaudia GoebelChristine MarizziTobias WolffAnne-Caroline Prévot
This workshop will explore the potential of Citizen Science (CS) for the Ecsite community at large. It will bring together CS experts from Ecsite member organisations - particularly science centres and museums - with practitioners from research...
Learning
Sabina BarcucciSebastian MartinJon HaavieRoland StelzerErik Torstensson
Researchers and creative practitioners focusing on maker practices are increasingly becoming sensitive to the effectiveness of the workshop format in collaborative practices, since most of learning is not the result of instruction but rather of...
Learning
Maya HalevyAntonio Gomes da CostaAntonio Gomes da CostaJustin DillonMaria XanthoudakiAmito HaarhuisBrad IrwinMaya Halevy
European science education policy has been hugely influential on science centres, museums, etc. The whole inquiry-based science education movement wouldn’t have happened without a big push from the ‘Rocard report’. So the new...