Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Education (MSEd)

First Advisor

Cathleen Wiggins

Abstract

Excellence & Equity calls for partnerships between museums and schools that will better utilize the strengths of both institutions to encourage learning and fulfill the social calling of museums (American Association of Museums [AAM], 1992). Meanwhile educators are called to meet 21st century learners head-on using “constructivist, project enhanced, collaborative, and authentic curricula” (King, 1998, p.1). With these principles in mind, the museum-school partnership becomes a viable remedy to meeting this social obligation of museums while affording schools opportunities to better engage new learners. Through the lens of a particular growing museum-school partnership between the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum and Staten Island Technical High School, this study will combine a program progress narrative with similar studies and narratives in order to advise the future of the program and bring about new considerations for future museum-school collaborations. Beginning with the goals of both institutions, initial questions regarding program design will be addressed. From that point, the program as it progressed from July-August 2015 will be detailed. In delineating the particulars of this program, current strengths will be discussed, which will be capitalized upon with more organized and cohesive future design.

Comments

Museum Education (Noncertification)

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