Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning

A Companion to Museum Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 323-339

  Falk, John H ^a   Dierking, Lynn D ^a   Adams, Marianna ^a  

^a Institute for Learning Innovation   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviorist approaches; Educational research; Educational theory; Learning innovation; Museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890981501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996836.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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