Jee Benjamin D, Anggoro Florencia K
Department of Psychology, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, United States.
Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 26;12:636030. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.636030. eCollection 2021.
Science museums aim to provide educational experiences for both children and adults. To achieve this goal, museum displays must convey scientifically-relevant relationships, such as the similarities that unite members of a natural category, and the connections between scientific models and observable objects and events. In this paper, we explore how research on comparison could be leveraged to support learning about such relationships. We describe how museum displays could promote educationally-relevant comparisons involving natural specimens and scientific models. We also discuss how these comparisons could be supported through the design of a display-in particular, by using similarity, space, and language to facilitate relational thinking for children and their adult companions. Such supports may be pivotal given the informal nature of learning in museums.
科学博物馆旨在为儿童和成人提供教育体验。为实现这一目标，博物馆展览必须传达与科学相关的关系，比如将自然类别中的成员联系在一起的相似之处，以及科学模型与可观察到的物体和事件之间的联系。在本文中，我们探讨如何利用比较研究来支持对这类关系的学习。我们描述了博物馆展览如何能够促进涉及自然标本和科学模型的、与教育相关的比较。我们还讨论了如何通过展览设计来支持这些比较——特别是通过利用相似性、空间和语言，来促进儿童及其成年同伴的关系性思维。鉴于在博物馆学习的非正规性质，这类支持可能至关重要。
