Editors:
Focuses on visitor experience and learning in natural history dioramas
Discusses the function of dioramas as models, leading to a better understanding of the scientific endeavour
Constructs a comprehensive framework to understand how museum visitors ‘translate’ the visual scene
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dioramas as Witnesses of the Past and Evidence of Change
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Theoretical Aspects of Learning with Dioramas
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Science Learning Activities Involving Dioramas
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About this book
This book presents the history of natural history dioramas in museums, their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience.
From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of societies.
In the simultaneously published book: “Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, Socio-cultural Aspects” the editors focus on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas to engage various audiences with – and in – contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Annette Scheersoi
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University College London (UCL), Institute of Education, London, UK
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
About the editors
Germany. Her doctorate was on museum’s exhibition concepts and the use of different
media for communicating biological knowledge. Since 2005 she is a biology teachertrainer
and researcher, first at Frankfurt University, then at the University of Cologne
and now at Bonn’s university. Her research on biology learning focuses on interest
development in out-of-school learning environments. Annette also develops learningmaterials for schools as well as for museums, zoos and botanic gardens.
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe is a Reader in Science Education at UCL Institute of
Education, University College London. She holds a bachelors degree from
Westfield College, University of London in Zoology and trained as a secondary
biology teacher at the university’s Institute of Education. After teaching in
grammar schools for a few years she had children and, wanting to find out more
about how young children learnt science, particularly biology, she entered
primary school teaching and is now interested in pre school learning, as well as
animals as exhibits. She set up and ran a new Primary Science and Design
Technology advisory team for London Borough of Richmond and then became
Head of Education at the Zoological Society of London. She has worked at the
BBC and in a cultural museum. Her doctorate was from King’s College,
London ’Talking about animals: conversations of children in zoos, a museum and
a farm”. She has published widely.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes
Book Subtitle: Science Educational Aspects
Editors: Annette Scheersoi, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00175-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00174-2Published: 22 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00175-9Published: 14 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 215
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Cultural and Media Studies, general