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Integrating Scaffolding Experiences for the Youngest Visitors in Museums

Barbara Wolf Barbara Wolf, PhD, is Associate Vice President of Research and Family Learning Evaluation at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; she is also a Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Professor Emeritus of Education and Evaluation Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work focuses on process learning and outcomes measurement.
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Elizabeth Wood Elizabeth Wood, PhD, is an associate professor of museum studies and teacher education at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and public scholar of museums, families, and learning at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Her research and evaluation work focuses on critical museum pedagogy and object-based learning.
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  • Nancy T. Haas. “Project Explore: How Children are Really Learning in Children's Museums.” The Visitor Studies Association 9, no. 1 (1997): 63–69; Laurel Puchner, Robyn Rapoport and Suzanne Gaskins. “Learning in Children's Museums: Is it Really Happening?” Curator: The Museum Journal 44, no. 3 (2001): 237–259; Robert Russell L. “Project Explore: Please Touch Museum and Harvard University's Project Zero.” Informal Learning 37 (Summer 1999): 1, 4–5.
  • Haas. “Project Explore: How Children are Really Learning in Children's Museums.”
  • Stephanie Downey, Amanda Krantz and Emily Skidmore. “The Parental Role in Children's Museums.” Museums and Social Issues 5, no. 1 (2010): 15–34; Suzanne Gaskins. “The Cultural Meaning of Play and Learning in Children's Museums.” Hand to Hand 22, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 1–2, 8–11; Stephanie Shine and Teresa Y. Acosta. “Parent-Child Social Play in a Children's Museum.” Family Relations 49, no. 1 (January 2000): 45–52; Mallary I. Swartz and Kevin Crowley. “Parent Beliefs about Teaching and Learning in a Children's Museum.” Visitor Studies Today 7, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 1, 5–16.
  • Downey. “The Parental Role in Children's Museums;” Gaskins. “The Cultural Meaning of Play and Learning in Children's Museums;” Elizabeth Wood and Barbara Wolf. “When Parents Stand Back is Family Learning Still Possible?” Museums and Social Issues 5, no. 1 (2010): 35–50.
  • Elizabeth Wood and Barbara Wolf. “Between the Lines of Engagement in Museums.” Journal of Museum Education 33, no. 2 (2008): 121–130.
  • Wood. “When Parents Stand Back is Family Learning Still Possible?”
  • Barbara Wolf. “The Nature of Research and Evaluation in Children's Museums: Some Recommendations for Determining Generalizability.” Hand to Hand 3, no. 1 (1989): 1, 9.
  • David Wood, Jerome Bruner, and Gail Ross. “The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving.” Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology 17, no. 2 (1976): 89–100.
  • Susie Wilkening and James Chung. “The Challenge of Moms.” Life Stages of the Museum Visitor (Washington, DC: AAM Press, 2009).
  • Elizabeth Reich Rawson. “It's About Them: Using Developmental Frameworks to Create Exhibitions for Children (and Their Grown-Ups).” Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions, ed. D. L. McRainey and J. Russick (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2010).
  • Marilyn Burns. I Am Not a Short Adult: Getting Good at Being a Kid (Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1997).

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