Museum Learning Experience:Turning visitors as participants

Authors

  • Shamsidar Ahmad Post Graduate Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA , MalaysiaA
  • Mohamed Yusoff Abbas Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA , Malaysia
  • Wan Zaiyana Mohd Yusof Faculty of Art & Design, Universiti Teknologi MARA , Malaysia
  • Mohd. Zafrullah Mohd.Taib Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA , Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i10.82

Keywords:

visitors’experience and learning, public participation, informal learning, lifelong learning

Abstract

Public participation such as visitor satisfaction was directly related to experience of the effectiveness learning and discovery also involvement in motivating learning behaviour at the museum. These will enhance museum in direction shaping a sustainable future as the museums as institutions for lifelong learning. The study reports the current status of a study focusing on Research Framework (RF) towards an adult visitors’ learning within informal education setting through museum exhibitions that are a part of on-going doctoral research programme that correlated with the museum management in Malaysia.

Keywords: visitors’experience and learning; public participation; informal learning; lifelong learning 

eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

 

Author Biography

Shamsidar Ahmad, Post Graduate Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA , MalaysiaA

Post Graduate Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA , Malaysia

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Published

2018-03-13

How to Cite

Ahmad, S., Abbas, M. Y., Mohd Yusof, W. Z., & Mohd.Taib, M. Z. (2018). Museum Learning Experience:Turning visitors as participants. Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies, 3(10), 75–86. https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i10.82

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