The Museum Collaborative has established a Technical Report series to share our work with the field. You can download copies of these reports and other articles produced by members of the Museum Learning Collaborative.
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MLC Technical Reports
Leinhardt, G. & Crowley, K. (1998) Museum learning as conversational elaboration: A proposal to capture, code and analyze museum talk. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-01
Abu-Shumays, M. & Leinhardt, G. (2000).Two docents, three museums: A study of central and peripheral participation. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-02.
Leinhardt, G. & Gregg, M. (2000). Burning bus, burning cross: Student teachers see civil rights. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-03.
Leinhardt, G., Tittle, C. & Knutson, K. (2000).Talking to oneself: Diary studies of museum visits. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-04.
Crowley, K. & Jacobs, M. (in press). Islands of expertise and the development of family scientific literacy. In G. Leinhardt, K. Crowley, & K. Knutson (Eds.) Learning conversations in museums. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Fienberg, J. & Leinhardt, G. (2000). Looking Through the Glass: Reflections of Identity in Conversations at a History Museum. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-06.
Stainton, C. (2001).Voices and images: Making connections between identity and art. Museum Learning Collaborative Technical Report MLC-07.
Museum Learning Articles and Chapters
Leinhardt, G. & Crowley, K. (in press). Objects of learning, objects of talk: Changing minds in museums. In S. Paris (Ed.), Multiple Perspectives on Children's Object-Centered Learning. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Crowley, K., Callanan, M.A., Jipson, J., Galco, J., Topping, K., & Shrager, J. (in press). Shared scientific thinking in everyday parent-child activity. Science Education.
Crowley, K., Callanan, M.A., Tenenbaum, H.R., & Allen, E. (2001). Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12 (3), 258-261.
Crowley, K., Leinhardt, G., & Chang, C.F. (2001). Emerging research communities and the World Wide Web: Analysis of a Web-based resource for the field of museum learning. Computers and Education, 36 (1), 1-14.
Crowley, K. & Galco, J (2001). Everyday activity and the development of scientific thinking. In K. Crowley, C. D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.), Designing for science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and professional settings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Crowley, K. & Callanan, M. (1998). Identifying and supporting shared scientific reasoning in parent-child interactions. Journal of Museum Education, 23, 12-17.
Schauble, L., Leinhardt, G., & Martin, L. (1997). A framework for oganizing a cumulative research agenda for informal learning contexts. Journal of Museum Education, 22 (3), 3-8.
If you have trouble reading these, contact Karen Knutson, knutson@pitt.edu, who can help you with technical questions or mail you a hard copy reprint.