Abstract

PIRELA MORILLO, Johann  and  OCANDO MEDINA, Jenny. A MODEL FOR THE DESIGN OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT MUSEUMS . Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2003, vol.18, n.1, pp.13-22. ISSN 1316-0087.

The article presents the theoretical and epistemological guidelines for the construction of a model guiding the conceptualization, planning, execution, and evaluation of educational actions in museum milieu. The model’s construction emerges as a response to the need posed by museum education designers to be able to rely on the support of a conceptual and methodological body with which to organize and structure educational and communication services, activities, processes, and products within the museum institution. This need was stressed by research carried out in 1999 and 2000, on the design of educational programs for spaces recognized as museums in the Maracaibo, Miranda, and Cabimas Municipalities of Zulia State. The model was built on the basis of the integration of perspectives from theorists who have explained educational action, learning, and the architecture of the mind in formal and informal educational contexts. Such theorists are Shouten (1989); Muñoz y Román (1989); Miralles (1992); Falk y Dierking (1992); Koran y Longino (1993); Inciarte (1998); Mithen (1998); y Gardner (2001). The proposal is complemented by the contributions of García (1988); Cañizales (1997); UNESCO (1996); Ramos (1997); and Guédez (1998) y Gil (1995).

Keywords : educational planning in the museum; guidelines; model construction.