Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums
This study aimed to analyze the school visitors at two different types of natural sciences museums. We observed interactions of the students between themselves, with their teachers, with the mediators, and with the exhibitions in these institutions. The theoretical review encompassed classical works...
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| author | Ebráilon Masetto Russel Teresinha Dutra da Rosa |
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| description | This study aimed to analyze the school visitors at two different types of natural sciences museums. We observed interactions of the students between themselves, with their teachers, with the mediators, and with the exhibitions in these institutions. The theoretical review encompassed classical works and recent studies on the specific theme. The methodological approach had a qualitative nature, with an exploratory feature, using naturalist, non-participant observations in three sciences museums from a municipality in the southern region of Brazil: a Sciences and Technology Museum, traditional of the interactive type, and two traditional orthodox. We performed a content analysis, creating categories of interaction. In the interactive traditional museum, people-object interactions were observed more frequently, and there were few visitor-visitor interactions, mainly between the visitors and the mediators. In the orthodox traditional museums, person-person interactions were more remarkable, especially interactions of visitors and mediators. Interactions of visitors with teachers were more commonly observed in one of the orthodox museums. In this one, we also observed the accomplishment of tasks and the expression of relationships between the exhibitions with previous knowledge, neither of which were noticed in the interactive museum. Reading of the explicative texts about the objects and experiments exposed was rarely observed in any of the three museums, even though it has been more common in the interactive museum. The empirical study has demonstrated that the characteristics of the museums and the action of mediators affect the public, whose interests and baggage of knowledge influence the way the collection is explored. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5cccd32b43d4809ae3a66d52e93c24f2022-12-21T19:39:29ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulInvestigações em Ensino de Ciências1518-87952020-12-01253416910.22600/1518-8795.ienci2020v25n3p41607Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science MuseumsEbráilon Masetto0Russel Teresinha Dutra da Rosa1Escola Estadual de Educação Profissional em Saúde no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul Rua São Manoel, 525, Porto Alegre, Rio grande do Sul, BrasilDepartamento de Ensino e Currículo, Faculdade de Educação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Av. Paulo Gama, 110, Porto Alegre, RS, BrasilThis study aimed to analyze the school visitors at two different types of natural sciences museums. We observed interactions of the students between themselves, with their teachers, with the mediators, and with the exhibitions in these institutions. The theoretical review encompassed classical works and recent studies on the specific theme. The methodological approach had a qualitative nature, with an exploratory feature, using naturalist, non-participant observations in three sciences museums from a municipality in the southern region of Brazil: a Sciences and Technology Museum, traditional of the interactive type, and two traditional orthodox. We performed a content analysis, creating categories of interaction. In the interactive traditional museum, people-object interactions were observed more frequently, and there were few visitor-visitor interactions, mainly between the visitors and the mediators. In the orthodox traditional museums, person-person interactions were more remarkable, especially interactions of visitors and mediators. Interactions of visitors with teachers were more commonly observed in one of the orthodox museums. In this one, we also observed the accomplishment of tasks and the expression of relationships between the exhibitions with previous knowledge, neither of which were noticed in the interactive museum. Reading of the explicative texts about the objects and experiments exposed was rarely observed in any of the three museums, even though it has been more common in the interactive museum. The empirical study has demonstrated that the characteristics of the museums and the action of mediators affect the public, whose interests and baggage of knowledge influence the way the collection is explored.https://www.if.ufrgs.br/cref/ojs/index.php/ienci/article/view/1714estudos de públicointerações sociaismuseu de ciências e de tecnologiamuseu tradicional interativomuseu tradicional ortodoxo |
| spellingShingle | Ebráilon Masetto Russel Teresinha Dutra da Rosa Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums Investigações em Ensino de Ciências estudos de público interações sociais museu de ciências e de tecnologia museu tradicional interativo museu tradicional ortodoxo |
| title | Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums |
| title_full | Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums |
| title_fullStr | Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums |
| title_short | Interactions of School Audience in Two Different Types of Science Museums |
| title_sort | interactions of school audience in two different types of science museums |
| topic | estudos de público interações sociais museu de ciências e de tecnologia museu tradicional interativo museu tradicional ortodoxo |
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