Browsing by Subject "museo oppimisympäristönä"
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(2018)According to the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education (2014), out-of-school learn-ing environments, such as museums, should be used more in education. However, there has been only little research on the point of view of museums in Finland. The purpose of this study was to find out class teachers’ perceptions of museum visits’ purposefulness. In addi-tion, the aim was to find out how class teachers conduct museum education and what kind of things classroom teachers need to take into account when visiting in museums. The study was conducted as a qualitative interview study. The interviews were attended by six class teachers from classes 4−6. The interviews were conducted as theme interviews in December 2017 and January-February 2018. The collected material was analysed by theo-retical content analysis. The analysis followed the analytical phases of the qualitative inter-view study process of Ruusuvuori, Nikander and Hyvärinen (2010). All the teachers regarded museum visits positively. Museums were experienced as authen-tic, inspiring, experiential and functional learning environments. However, according to inter-viewees, teachers cannot leave to museum without proper pre-planning. Also the handling of museum visit in the school requires advance planning. Most of all the teachers seem to uti-lize guided tours and other ready-made materials provided by museums. The teachers themselves were not very motivated to plan and produce working methods in museums. During the museum visit, the teachers felt primarily responsible for supervising the work of students and maintaining order. Although museums were perceived as good learning envi-ronments, it was difficult for teachers to associate visits to other classroom teaching. Most of all the teachers joined museum visits to the contents and the aims of history and art subjects. On the other hand, teachers see museum visits as common knowledge. The biggest chal-lenge for museum visits were the lack of money, museums’ constraints and poor guides.
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(2016)Aim. The purpose of this study was to examine learning in the museum and the use of museum services in supporting teaching and learning from class teachers' and museum educators' point of view. The study introduces ways to develop schools' and museums' cooperation as well as museum services for schools. The background of the study is in the renewed core curriculum for basic education and in the role of museum learning. The new curriculum will be implemented in schools starting Autumn 2016. Methods. The study was conducted as a qualitative research. Five class teachers and five museum educators took part in the study. The research data was collected by using individual theme interviews in Helsinki during Spring 2014 and 2015. Data from the interviews was analysed by using qualitative content-based analysis. Results. Class teachers and museum educators evaluate museum as an important resource for teaching and learning. Museum as a learning environment is versatile and supports school learning in many ways. Museum services were evaluated as mainly positive. Instead the quality of guided museum tours was evaluated as variable. Additionally teachers were looking for better practical teaching materials. Schools' and museums' cooperation was considered good from both teachers' and museum educators' point of views. Museum educators considered that cooperation could be utilized in more versatile ways. Defining museum services for schools more clearly can encourage more teachers to utilize them in teaching and learning. With the help of more goal orientated cooperation, it is possible to improve the dialogue between schools and museums as well as to develop museum services to meet school's needs better.
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