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Science Centers at 40: Middle‐aged Maturity or Mid‐life Crisis?
Author(s) -
Semper Rob
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2007.tb00258.x
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , center (category theory) , institution , medical science , psychology , medical education , political science , sociology , medicine , social science , developmental psychology , chemistry , crystallography
Abstract Science centers are maturing in an era in which learning has become acutely individualized, self‐empowered, and selective. The science center movement is now faced with a new educational environment that it can either embrace or ignore. What does it mean to be an institution in this deinstitutionalized world?