Programme 332, Karen Hammerness and the Educational Potential of Museums (13-6-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme I am joined again by Dr. Karen Hammerness who is the Director of Edcuational research and Evaluation at the American Museum of Natural History. This week we talk about the Museum as a site for education, including teacher education and we hear about the innovative programmes the museum has in place for educating people in and about science. Among the topics discussed this week are:

• The education programmes of the Museum


• Museum-based teacher education


• Learning about teaching and teacher education in Norway


• Outdoor education in Norway


• Building community in school


• What school is for


• What inspires her


• Books that have influenced her (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures and Metaphors We Live By)