Learning & interpretation: interpretation reading list
Astudillo, L.(Ed.) (1996) Museums, Education and the Natural, Social and Cultural Heritage, Cuenca.
Binks, G., Dyke, J. & Dagnall, P. (1988) Visitors Welcome, London, English Heritage.
Bitgood, S., Serrell, B. & Thompson, D. (1994) The Impact of Informal Education on Visitors to Museums. IN Crane, V. (Ed.) Informal Science Learning: What the Research Says About Television, Science Museums, and Community Based Projects. Dedham, Research Communications Ltd.
Brawne, M. (1982) The Museum Interior - Temporary and Permanent Display Techniques, London, Thames and Hudson.
Bruce, A. L. (1964) Systematic Method for Designers, London, Royal College of Art.
Bud, R. (1988) The Myth and the Machine: Seeing Science Through Museum Eyes. IN Law, J. & Fyfe, G. (Eds.) Picturing Power: Visual Depiction and Social Relations. London, Routledge.
Cameron, D. F. (1968) A viewpoint: the museum as a communications system and implications for museum education. Curator, 11, 33-40.
Carmel, J. H. (1962) Exhibition Techniques: Travelling and Temporary, New York, Reinhold.
Cave, V. (1999) An examination of the development process of hands-one educational exhibits for children. University College, London.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Robinson, R. (1990) The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter, Malibu, J Paul Getty Museum / Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
Davidson, B., Heald, C. L. & Hein, G. E. (1991) Increased Exhibit Accessibility Through Multi-sensory Interaction. Curator, 34, 273-90.
Dexter Lord, G. & Lord, B. (Eds.) (1999) The Manual of Museum Planning: Second Edition, Walnut Creek, California, AltaMira Press.
Eidelman, J. & Raguet-Candito, N. (2002) The exhibition: the difference and its reception in Switzerland, France and Quebec: the visitor as expert, mediator and ethnologist. Ethnologie francaise, XXXIII(2), 357-370.
Falk, J. H. & Dierking, L. D. (1992) The Museum Experience, Washington, Whalesback Books.
Fosnot, C. T. (Ed.) (1996) Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives, Practice, New York, Teachers College Press.
Foster, J. J. (1980) Legibility Research, London, Royal College of Art.
Fry, E. A. (1968) A readability formula which saves time. Journal of Reading, 11, 513-16, 575-8.
Gardner, J. & Heller, C. (1960) Exhixbition and Display, London, Batsford.
Gouvêa, G., Valente, M. E. A., Cazelli, S., Alves, F. C., Marandino, M. & Falcão, D. (2002) A Study of the Process of Museographic Transformation in Two Exhibitions at the MAST. IN Dufresne-Tassé, C. (Ed.) L'evaluation, recherche applique aux multiples usages. 1 ed.
Hall, M. (1987) On Display, a Deisgn Grammar for Museums, London, Lund Humphries.
Hein, G. E. (1998) Learning in the Museum, London, Routledge.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1990) Museum Education, Leicester, Leicester University Press.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1994) Museums and Their Visitors, London, Routledge.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. (Ed.) (1995) Museums, Media, Message, London, Routledge.
Karpe, I. & Lavine, S. (Eds.) (1991) Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Washington, The Smithsonian Institution.
Kavanagh, G. (1990) History Curatorship, Leicester, Leicester University Press.
Knez, E. I. & Wright, A. G. (1970) The museum as a communications system: an assessment of Cameron's viewpoint. Curator, 13, 201-12.
Lunzer, E. & Gardner, K. (Eds.) (1979) The Effective Use of Reading, London, Heinemann.
Maclogan, E. (1931) Museum Planning. Journal of hte Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Series, 38, 527-48.
Mclean, K. (1993) Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions, Washington, Association of Science-Technology Centres.
Miles, R. S., Alt, M. B., Gosling, D. C., Lewis, B. N. & Tout, A. F. (Eds.) (1988) The Design of Educational Exhibits, London, Unwin Hyman.
Moffat, H. & Woollard, V. (1999) Msueum & Gallery Education: A Manual of Good Practice, HMSO.
Museums, A. A. O. (1992) The Audience in Exhibition Development, Washington DC, American Association of Museums.
Pope-Hennesey, S. J. (1975) Design in Museums. Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts, CXXIII, 717-27.
Schmeck, R. R. (1987) Learning Strategies and Learning Styles, New York, Plenum Press.
Serrell, B. (1996) Exhibit Labels: an Interpretive Approach, Walnut Creek, AltaMira Press.
Serrell, B. (Ed.) (1998) Paying Attention: Visitors & Museum Exhibitions, American Association of Museums.
Stansfield, G. (1981) Effective Interpretive Exhibitions, Cheltenham, Countryside Commission.
Sudbury, P. & Russel, T. (1995) Evaluation of Museum and Gallery Displays, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press.
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