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elleng

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:39 PM Jun 2015

The Educational Value of Field Trips

Taking students to an art museum improves critical thinking skills, and more.

If schools are de-emphasizing culturally enriching field trips, has anything been lost as a result? Surprisingly, we have relatively little rigorous evidence about how field trips affect students. The research presented here is the first large-scale randomized-control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum.

We find that students learn quite a lot. In particular, enriching field trips contribute to the development of students into civilized young men and women who possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical-thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for consuming art and culture.

http://educationnext.org/the-educational-value-of-field-trips/?utm_content=16998597&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

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The Educational Value of Field Trips (Original Post) elleng Jun 2015 OP
True kkilicer Jul 2015 #1
Yes, thanks, elleng Jul 2015 #2
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