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Learning in Out-of-School Settings ProjectsIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum/Project Zero Educational Collaboration was established for the purpose of developing educational activities and curricula to help make the Museum's unique collections more accessible to schools and other populations. Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) is a small community of business leaders, academics, and organizational researchers collectively exploring themes of leadership, human development and innovation in the workplace. Mather Afterschool Program: A Project-Centered Approach to Literacy Instruction was a collaborative undertaking which resulted in the development of a project-based afterschool program designed to build students' literacy and thinking skills. MoMA's Visual Thinking Curriculum Project was an investigation of the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art's Visual Thinking Curriculum. Parent Partners was a project to develop a website for parents. It aimed to help them understand and support their children's growth in seven areas of development from birth through age 14. Project Co-Arts was a national study of community arts centers in economically disadvantaged communities that focused on education. The project developed a framework to help administrators and teacher/artists make thoughtful decisions regarding the provision of quality education. The project also worked to enable art centers and other educational institutions to document and assess their educational effectiveness. Project MUSE (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education) was a collaboration of researchers, museum educators, and classroom teachers focused on exploring the potential of art museums to serve as integral elements of education. Understanding for Organizations is an action research endeavor, in collaboration with the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia, developing a framework which foregrounds personal and organizational inquiry in the workplace and communities. Project Zero researchers are working with a group of administrators at the university to cultivate personal investment and action projects that advance various aspects of university life. Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas: Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects Multiple Intelligences Projects |
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