Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, İspanya, 7 - 09 Mart 2011, ss.6397-6407
Relationship between museum and the visitors becomes the stage for new developments in each passing day in 21st century. Developments in the understanding of museum and museology turn from the introverted attitudes to outward applications. Each museum will have a message for the visitors. A message of the particular museum with his works, objects and exhibitions may become meaningful at the end of an interactive museum life and museum education process. Personal, social and physical dimensions of this life covers interaction with objects through the perceptions and interests, making observations, expressing feelings, using imagination, linking your own life, having the message of the museum with the museums' vision, reading the objects, sharing cultural values and life, searching the truth, making applications and evaluation. Each class in primary and secondary education programs must include lots of gains which address the cultural awareness at different levels. This study includes the activities which are designed in line with the gains in cultural awareness for elementary school education and the application and procedures of these activities in the Museum of Foundation Works in Ankara, Turkey. In this context, activities which are suitable and convenient for every unit and the gains of Social Studies Courses, Visual Arts Courses and Art Courses for 6th, 7th and 8th classes of primary schools. These activities were applied by the researchers in the museum with students from Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Elementary School Teacher's Training Programme. In the last stage of the study, museum education applied under the leadership of the teacher candidates with the students of Sereflikochisar Regional Primary Boarding School (RPBS) in Ankara and Social Services Society for the Protection of Children (SSSPC) in the Museum of Foundation Works. Students were asked their ideas about the museum and museum education activities before and after the museum application. Suggestions for educational applications are developed and presented in accordance with these views.