Effect of Museum Visit Intervention on Learning and Attitude Towards History
- Title
- Effect of Museum Visit Intervention on Learning and Attitude Towards History
- Creator
- Chatterjee, Sahani
- Contributor
- G S, Prakasha
- Description
- Place-Based Education is an education where learning happens in a place. The place could be museum, garden, palace, library etc. Place-based education is useful for the discipline of History as places are the existing evidence of past historical events. Therefore, students in History discipline can use place-based education for effective learning of history. The study attempts to find out the effect of museum visit intervention on learning and attitude towards newlinehistory. The study brings out how Museums act as an active agency to learn history. The study employed Quasi-experimental model with pre-test, post-test and follow-up post-test. Through purposive random sampling method, the participants were selected from 6th grade students of secondary schools of ICSE board located in the urban area of Kolkata in India. 120 students are included in the study group of the research (control group=60, experimental group=60). For the purpose of measuring museum visit intervention on learning and attitude towards history, researcher made achievement test and attitude scale with 5 point Likert scale was used. newlineThe instruction was provided in accordance with the History Course Curriculum of ICSE newlineboard. Experimental group visited the museum whilst the control group did not visit the newlinemuseum. Data analysis was conducted through SPSS program version 29. The result of the newlinestudy revealed that students of the experimental groups have performed better in comparison to the students of the control groups in learning and attitude towards history. Therefore, there is a recommendation to include museum visits pedagogies in the scope of social studies in History discipline.
- Source
- Author's Submission
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Christ(Deemed to be University)
- Subject
- Education
- Rights
- Open Access
- Relation
- 61000384
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10603/595261
Collection
Citation
Chatterjee, Sahani , “Effect of Museum Visit Intervention on Learning and Attitude Towards History,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/12430.