Articles
These articles by Ted Ansbacher elaborate on various aspects of the experience-based theory of education and its application to museum exhibits and science education.
All articles are in PDF format. Click on the title to view or download.
Questions and comments are welcome.
These articles by Ted Ansbacher elaborate on various aspects of the experience-based theory of education and its application to museum exhibits and science education.
All articles are in PDF format. Click on the title to view or download.
Questions and comments are welcome.
- Making Sense of Experience: A Model for Meaning-Making -- Exhibitionist, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2013
- Rethinking our Goals: Putting Process First -- The Informal Learning Review, No. 74, Sep-Oct 2005
- The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History: An Experience-Based Critique -- Exhibitionist, Vol. 21, No. 2, Fall 2002 (4.9 MB)
- On Making Exhibits Engaging and Interesting -- Curator: The Museum Journal, 44:3, July 2002 (530 KB)
- Misunderstandings of Meaning Making -- Exhibitionist, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2002 (49 KB)
- Outcomes of the Museum Experience: Continuing the Discussion -- The Informal Learning Review, No. 56, Sept/Oct 2002 (245 KB)
- What Are We Learning?: Outcomes of the Museum Experience -- The Informal Learning Review, No. 53, March/April 2002 (457 KB)
- An Interview with John Dewey on Science Education -- The Informal Learning Review, No. 34, Jan/Feb 1999; also The Physics Teacher, Vol. 38, No. 3, April 2000 (1.4 MB)
- What Did You See and Do?: A Brief Introduction to Experience-Based Exhibits -- The Informal Learning Review, No. 40, Jan/Feb 2000 (38 KB)
- Experience, Inquiry, and Making Meaning -- Exhibitionist, Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 1999 (66 KB)
- John Dewey's Experience and Education: Lessons for Museums -- Curator: The Museum Journal, 41:1, March 1998 (909 KB)
- Review of Learning in the Museum by George E. Hein and Museums: Places of Learning by George E. Hein and Mary Alexander -- Curator: The Museum Journal, 41:4, Dec 1998 (73 KB)
- Guidelines for Inquiry -- unpublished, 1998
- If Technology is the Answer, What Was the Question?: Technology and Experience-Based Learning -- Hand to Hand, journal of the Assn of Youth Museums, Vol. 11, No. 3, Falll 1997
- Real Reality: The Future for Exhibits -- Hand to Hand, journal of the Association of Youth Museums, Spring 1997 (28 KB)
- Exhibits and Learning at the Science Center: Another View -- The Informal Science Review, No. 18, May/June 1996 (53 KB)
- Preschool Science at Museums -- American Association of Physics Teachers/American Physical Society annual meeting, San Francisco, Jan 1987 (312 KB)