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resource research Media and Technology

Many Experts, Many Audiences: Public Engagement with Science

This white paper is the product of the CAISE Public Engagement with Science Inquiry Group. It describes how public engagement with science (PES) in the context of informal science education can provide opportunities for public awareness of and participation in science and technology. The term engagement is characterized by mutual learning by publics and scientists rather than a one-way transmission of knowledge from experts to publics.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) Ellen McCallie Larry Bell Tiffany Lohwater John H Falk Jane Lehr Bruce Lewenstein Cynthia Needham Ben Wiehe
resource research Media and Technology

Public Participation in Scientific Research: Defining the Field and Assessing Its Potential for Informal Science Education

This white paper is the product of the CAISE Public Participation in Scientific Research Inquiry Group. It describes how public participation in scientific research (PPSR) through informal science education can provide opportunities to increase public science literacy.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) Rick Bonney Heidi Ballard Rebecca Jordan Ellen McCallie Tina Phillips Jennifer Shirk Candie Wilderman
resource project Exhibitions

Exhibit Lab: Developing a Community of Practitioners

The four New England museums of the Environmental Exhibit Lab (EEC) set out in the Fall of 2011 to create a replicable model of collaborative professional development for small museums. At small institutions, impending deadlines, budget and staffing limitations, and professional isolation all too often get in the way of true innovation. The goal of Exhibit Lab was to help staff who, though conversant with current museum theory, sometimes struggle to apply that theory to their daily work, or to disseminate these ideas through an institution. Exhibit Lab relied on a carefully crafted mix of meetings, workshops and staff exchanges, a combination of outside experts and peer-to-peer mentoring, to foster a community of practitioners, engaged in collaborative learning-by-doing. In short, the participants created a "virtual department" in which we came to rely as quickly on our peers in a partner museum as quickly as we would to a co-worker down the hall had we worked in a larger museum. The Exhibit Lab project focused on the work of the Exhibit and Program/Education staffs, but we feel that the project model holds lessons for other museum departments, and for museums outside the Children's and Science museum sphere.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Worcester Natural History Society dba EcoTarium Betsy Loring Alexander Goldowsky Suzanne Olson Chris Sullivan Phelan Fretz Julie Silverman Neil Gordon Denise LeBlanc Joseph P. Cox