PROFILE

MARIA XANTHOUDAKI

Director of Education &CREI (Centre for Research in Informal Education), Dr

National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci

About informal science

Projects

Tinkering EU: Building Science Capital for All Science Education as Tool for Active Citizenship

Research

Tinkering: Addressing the Adults. Exploring Tinkering with Adult Learners: What we learned. A guide for museums and other informal learning and science engagement organizations Creative Learning in STEM: towards the design of an approach between theory and reflective practice Tinkering: Addressing the Adults. A Theoretical and Methodological Framework

Tinkering as an inclusive approach for building STEM identity and supporting students facing disadvantage or with low science capital: Considerations from a reflective practice experience with teachers Bringing Tinkering to School - Ideas for Activities Tinkering and Science Capital: Ideas and Perspective “Bird of another feather”: re-envisioning professional development for museum learning experts Reflecting on the role of informal learning and visitor experience in science museums Beautiful Guides. The Value of Explainers in Science Communication A Learning Research Agenda for Natural History Institutions Museums for science education: can we make the difference? The case of the EST Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader Making Science Matter: Collaborations Between Informal Science Education Organizations and Schools Museums, innovative pedagogies and the twenty-first century learner: a question of methodology