Review paper
Museums as avenues of learning for children: a decade of research
Abstract
In this review, we focus on the museum activities and strategies that encourage and support children’s learning. In order to provide insight into what is known about children’s learning in museums, we examined study content, methodology and the resultant knowledge from the last decade of research. Because interactivity is increasingly seen as essential in children’s learning experiences in a museum context, we developed a framework that...
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Fig. 1 The framework of facilitating strategies and activities in children’s lea...

Fig. 2 Percentage of total 44 reviewed sources presented per museum type

Table 1 Article selection procedure
Paper Details
Title
Museums as avenues of learning for children: a decade of research
Published Date
Oct 27, 2016
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
47 - 76
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