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Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Part I Studying Learning with Objects in Contexts
1 The Role of Context in Children's Learning From Objects
and Experiences
Lynn Dierking
2 The Role of Objects in Active, Distributed Meaning-Making
Shawn Rowe
3 Children Learning with Objects in Informal Learning
Environments
Scott G. Paris and Susanna E. Hapgood
4 The Authentic Object? A Child's-Eye View
E. Margaret Evans, Melinda S. Mull, and
DevereauxA. Poling
5 When the Object is Digital: Properties of Digital Surrogate
Objects and Implications for Learning
C Olivia Frost
6 Through the Garden Gate: Objects and Informal Education
for Environmental and Cultural Awareness in Arboreta and
Botanic Gardens
David C Michener and IngerJ. Schultz
7 Epistemological Issues about Objects
James VWertsch
Part II Discipline-Based Explorations of Objects
8 Learning With, Through, and About Art: The Role of
Social Interactions
Barbara Piscitelli and Katrina Weier
9 Placing Objects Within Disciplinary Perspectives: Examples
From History and Science
Robert Bain and Kirsten M. Ellenbogen
10 Fostering an Investigatory Stance: Using Text to Mediate
Inquiry with Museum Objects
Susanna E. Hapgood andAnnemarie Sullivan Palincsar
11 Objects and Learning: Understanding Young Children's
Interaction with Science Exhibits
Leonie J Rennie and Terence P McClafferty
12 Reading Objects
Christina E. van Kraayenoord and Scott G. Paris
13 Cloaking Objects in Epistemological Practices
Leona Schauble
Part m Conversations About Objects
14 Object-Based Learning and Family Groups
Minda Borun
15 Maps, Globes, and Videos: Parent-Child Conversations
About Representational Objects
Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer L.Jipson, and
Monika Stampf Soennichsen
16 Pathways Among Objects and Museum Visitors
KristineA. Morrissey
17 Objects of Learning, Objects of Talk: Changing Minds
in Museums
Gaea Leinhardt and Kevin Crowley
18 Leveling the Playing Field Through Object-Based
Service Learning
DeAnna Banks Beane and Myla Shanae Pope
19 The Object of Experience
Sally Duensing
Author Index
Subject Index.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Part I Studying Learning with Objects in Contexts
1 The Role of Context in Children's Learning From Objects
and Experiences
Lynn Dierking
2 The Role of Objects in Active, Distributed Meaning-Making
Shawn Rowe
3 Children Learning with Objects in Informal Learning
Environments
Scott G. Paris and Susanna E. Hapgood
4 The Authentic Object? A Child's-Eye View
E. Margaret Evans, Melinda S. Mull, and
DevereauxA. Poling
5 When the Object is Digital: Properties of Digital Surrogate
Objects and Implications for Learning
C Olivia Frost
6 Through the Garden Gate: Objects and Informal Education
for Environmental and Cultural Awareness in Arboreta and
Botanic Gardens
David C Michener and IngerJ. Schultz
7 Epistemological Issues about Objects
James VWertsch
Part II Discipline-Based Explorations of Objects
8 Learning With, Through, and About Art: The Role of
Social Interactions
Barbara Piscitelli and Katrina Weier
9 Placing Objects Within Disciplinary Perspectives: Examples
From History and Science
Robert Bain and Kirsten M. Ellenbogen
10 Fostering an Investigatory Stance: Using Text to Mediate
Inquiry with Museum Objects
Susanna E. Hapgood andAnnemarie Sullivan Palincsar
11 Objects and Learning: Understanding Young Children's
Interaction with Science Exhibits
Leonie J Rennie and Terence P McClafferty
12 Reading Objects
Christina E. van Kraayenoord and Scott G. Paris
13 Cloaking Objects in Epistemological Practices
Leona Schauble
Part m Conversations About Objects
14 Object-Based Learning and Family Groups
Minda Borun
15 Maps, Globes, and Videos: Parent-Child Conversations
About Representational Objects
Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer L.Jipson, and
Monika Stampf Soennichsen
16 Pathways Among Objects and Museum Visitors
KristineA. Morrissey
17 Objects of Learning, Objects of Talk: Changing Minds
in Museums
Gaea Leinhardt and Kevin Crowley
18 Leveling the Playing Field Through Object-Based
Service Learning
DeAnna Banks Beane and Myla Shanae Pope
19 The Object of Experience
Sally Duensing
Author Index
Subject Index.