John Falk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6306669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Falk |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Falk |
| SIGNATURE | FALK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University Department of Science and Math Education Oregon USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Landscape Preferences
Museum audiences
Research on why the public visits museums is presented in order to provide a visitor-centered perspective on the long-running debate about whether museums should position themselves first and foremost as content authorities or as public educators, often dichotomized as ‘quality/education’ versus ‘quantity/entertainment.’ Data from a diversity of museums across the globe reveals that the public currently visits museums in order to satisfy not a si…
Museum education in a changing public landscape
Increasingly, museum educators find themselves trying to balance the need to attract the broadest possible audiences to their institutions, with all the hype and trappings of popular culture that c
Tourism and identity‐related motivations
This paper examines past and present literature relating to identity development and identity‐related tourism motivation. It presents a theoretical model of identity‐related tourism motivation that is based on multidimensional rather than unidimensional theories of identity as well as acknowledging both individual and social influences on identity development. It is argued that identity‐related motivations are fundamental to all tourist experienc…
Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability
The 95 Percent Solution
Using the contextual model of learning to understand visitor learning from a science center exhibition
Falk and Dierking's Contextual Model of Learning was used as a theoretical construct for investigating learning within a free-choice setting. A review of previous research identified key variables fundamental to free-choice science learning. The study sought to answer two questions: (1) How do specific independent variables individually contribute to learning outcomes when not studied in isolation? and (2) Does the Contextual Model of Learning pr…
Recent advances in the neurosciences
Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability
Museum audiences
Research on why the public visits museums is presented in order to provide a visitor-centered perspective on the long-running debate about whether museums should position themselves first and foremost as content authorities or as public educators, often dichotomized as ‘quality/education’ versus ‘quantity/entertainment.’ Data from a diversity of museums across the globe reveals that the public currently visits museums in order to satisfy not a si…
Museum education in a changing public landscape
Increasingly, museum educators find themselves trying to balance the need to attract the broadest possible audiences to their institutions, with all the hype and trappings of popular culture that c
Recent advances in the neurosciences
Using the contextual model of learning to understand visitor learning from a science center exhibition
Falk and Dierking's Contextual Model of Learning was used as a theoretical construct for investigating learning within a free-choice setting. A review of previous research identified key variables fundamental to free-choice science learning. The study sought to answer two questions: (1) How do specific independent variables individually contribute to learning outcomes when not studied in isolation? and (2) Does the Contextual Model of Learning pr…
The 95 Percent Solution
Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability
Tourism and identity‐related motivations
This paper examines past and present literature relating to identity development and identity‐related tourism motivation. It presents a theoretical model of identity‐related tourism motivation that is based on multidimensional rather than unidimensional theories of identity as well as acknowledging both individual and social influences on identity development. It is argued that identity‐related motivations are fundamental to all tourist experienc…
Landscape Preferences
Museum audiences
Research on why the public visits museums is presented in order to provide a visitor-centered perspective on the long-running debate about whether museums should position themselves first and foremost as content authorities or as public educators, often dichotomized as ‘quality/education’ versus ‘quantity/entertainment.’ Data from a diversity of museums across the globe reveals that the public currently visits museums in order to satisfy not a si…
Museum education in a changing public landscape
Increasingly, museum educators find themselves trying to balance the need to attract the broadest possible audiences to their institutions, with all the hype and trappings of popular culture that c
Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Visitor pattern (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)