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Visitors and Learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities Book section

Citation: Lynda Kelly. 2007. Visitors and Learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities. Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod & Sheila Watson (ed). pp 276-291 In Museum Revolutions. Routledge: London and New York. ISBN 10:0-415-44466-5

This chapter reports preliminary findings from the PhD study Visitors and Learners: Investigating Adult Museum Visitors' Learning Identities

Last Updated: 19 June 2009

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