Primary school students’ benefiting from museums with educational purposes

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2010

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Uludağ Üniversitesi

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate what primary school students’ benefiting from museums with educational purposes. That learning and teaching environments are connected with reality enables the realization of meaningful learning. Nevertheless, relations have been determined between allocating time for museum visits and the joys inside teachers waken by Social Studies course. Museum provides an excellent environment which enables students to learn while living and experiencing that can contribute to their mental, physical, affective, cognitive, and social development. The contribution of museums in getting time concept concrete will be at highest level due to the fact that families will share mutual time and place with their children. Relation was detected between teachers’ having libraries that they can improve themselves professionally, allocating time for museum visits, and feeling that Social Sciences course creates joy inside them.

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Museum, Students, Education, Social Studies, Family

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Doğan, Y. (2010). "Primary school students’ benefiting from museums with educational purposes". International Journal of Social Inquiry, 3(2), 137-164.