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MUSEUMS & SOCIAL ISSUES-A JOURNAL OF REFLECTIVE DISCOURSE
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2023.2263528
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Research-practice partnerships; climate change education; rural education; community-engagement; museum partnerships; informal learning
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This research-practice partnership aims to support climate change education in public settings. By building upon prior work and using asset-based strategies, the museum collaborated with scientists, learning researchers, and rural community members, and conducted a survey to understand the rural community's climate beliefs, interests, and understandings as a starting point for their collective design work.
A research-practice partnership between museum-based educators and scientists, learning researchers, and rural community members was designed to support climate change education in public settings. We consider the museum's role in this work, tracing how the partnership built upon lessons learned from prior work, and used asset-based strategies to learn from the rural community. We present a survey of rural climate beliefs, interests and understandings that was used to surface starting points for our collective design work. The network's first public-facing event helped the group to check our assumptions about a perceived spiral of silence that can shut down discourse and engagement around contentious issues, and provided opportunities to gauge the community's interest in locally relevant climate change conversations. We describe how museums can address power and position to build trust with rural partners and audiences, and to extend their impact on urgent socio-scientific issues.
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