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ERIC Number: EJ224764
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Jan
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What is Beyond, or Before, the Lecture Tour? A Study of Aesthetic Modes of Understanding.
Housen, Abigail
Art Education, v33 n1 p16-18 Jan 1980
Reports research which distinguished five types of museum visitors by their levels of aesthetic judgment and determined that these types follow different paths and seek different information while in the museum. Based on these findings, a participatory tour format was designed for adolescent Type I and II (naive) visitors. (SJL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Field Trips, Individual Differences, Information Seeking, Museums, Program Design, Psychological Studies, Responses, Secondary Education, Student Participation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Museum Tours; Museum Visitors