Title:	Natural History Dioramas
Authors:	Sue Dale Tunnicliffe Annette Scheersoi
Keywords:	Educational Role
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book celebrates dioramas as unique and essential learning tools for bio- logical education for all. It provides information about their historical development, demise, and more recent renaissance, past and the modern developments in their construction, the technique of taxidermy, as well as aspects of interpretation and educational research about learning processes including different methods to en- gage audiences, such as performance and storytelling. We describe the journey of dioramas from their inception through subsequent developments to visions of their future. We also present a complementary journey of the visitors to dioramas, their individual sense-making and construction of their understanding from their own starting points and cultural context, often as they interact with others (e.g. teachers, peers, parents) and media (e.g. labels). The book consists of three parts: the past, the present as well as future trends together with visitors’ interaction with natural history dioramas. Contributors from different countries, from the west coast of the USA across Europe to China, and from different professional backgrounds demonstrate the different ways is which they use and observe dioramas. The concept of the habitat diorama was developed at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe and North America and also included aspects of nature conserva- tion. Diorama exhibits contain animals and plants with their characteristic features, and enable visitors to be able to classify the organisms and recognise the ‘exhibit furniture’ which creates the context in which to view the plants and animals.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/58225
ISBN:	978-94-017-9496-1
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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