Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums / edited by Scott G. Paris.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I: Studying learning with objects in contexts -- 1. The role of context in children's learning from objects and experiences / Lynn Dierking -- 2. The role of objects in active, distributed meaning-making / Shawn Rowe -- 3. Children learning with objects / Scott G. Paris and Susanna E. Hapgood -- 4. The authentic object? A child's-eye view / E. Margaret Evans, Melinda S. Mull, and Devereaux A. Poling -- 5. When the object is digital: properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning / C. Olivia Frost -- 6. Through the garden gate: objects and informal education for environmental and cultural awareness in Arboreta and Botanic gardens / David C. Michener and Inger J. Schultz -- 7. Epistemological issues about objects / James V. Wertsch -- II: Discipline-based explorations of objects -- 8. Learning with, through, and about art: the role of social interactions / Barbara Piscitelli and Katrina Weier -- 9. Placing objects within disciplinary perspectives: examples from history and science / Robert Bain and Kirsten M. Ellenbogen -- 10. Fostering an investigatory stance: using text to mediate inquiry with museum objects / Susanna E. Hapgood and Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar -- 11. Objects and learning: understanding young children's interaction with science exhibits / Léonie J. Rennie and Terence P. McClafferty -- 12. Reading objects / Christina E. van Kraayenoord and Scott G. Paris -- 13. Cloaking objects in epistemological practices / Leona Schauble -- III: Conversations about objects -- 14. Object-based learning and family groups / Minda Borun -- 15. Maps, globes, and videos: parent-child conversations about representational objects / Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer L. Jipson, and Monika Stampf Soennichsen -- 16. Pathways among objects and museum visitors / Kristine A. Morrissey -- 17. Objects of learning, objects of talk: changing minds in museums / Gaea Leinhardt and Kevin Crowley -- 18. Leveling the playing field through object-based service learning / DeAnna Banks Beane and Myla Shanae Pope -- 19. The object of experience / Sally Duensing.