‘’No Student Not Met Museum Education’’ A Practice of Volunteer Education Program in the Museum

Abstract

The “museum education’’, which has been on the agenda in Turkey since 1990, was formalized along with the developments in museum approaches of Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the efforts of Ministry of National Education, Board of Education for integrating the museums with training. This study was focused on the evaluation process of museum education program carried out by the Museum Education Volunteers of Association for Supporting Contemporary Life (CYDD) in the school and at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations with 4 th graders in Ankara. The program, which was developed in 2014, carried out between 2014-2017 and reached to 985 students in total, was prepared with the aim of determining the quality of education given to voluntary museum educators and the levels of attaining the goals. The program indicated that the participants had knowledge about museum and museum education and their basic knowledge increased along with the education. The views of participants indicated that the program achievements and content were in conformity with the expectations and needs of participants; the findings concerning learning-teaching process demonstrated that the education program was successful.