Background Information on Learning Outside the Classroom and Heritage learning
There is a great deal of further research and information surrounding Learning Outside the Classroom in the heritage sector. Find links to relevant resources, publications and organisations.
Publications and websites
- The Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) website.
- LOtC Quality Badge website.
- An introduction to DCMS and DfES policy and thinking on children and young people’s learning through museums and galleries.
- An outline of the Museums & Galleries Education Programme: Phase 2, with links to the interim and final reports and summaries.
- Research report: The Impact of HLF Funding for Curriculum-linked Learning for 5–19 year olds, by Valerie Wilson, Julia Davidson, Stuart Hall, Nicola Rankin, March 2005 (revised August 2005)
- A summary of the What did you learn at the museum today? (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council)
- Culture24 website: education pages
- Historic Houses Association – Learning Advisory Service
- Opening Doors: Learning in the Historic Environment – An Attingham Trust report, edited by Giles Waterfield, 2004.
- A Common Wealth; Museums in the Learning Age. David Anderson (DCMS 1999)
- The Learning Power of Museums. DCMS/ DfEE 2000)
- The research and thinking behind Generic Learning Outcomes is detailed in this report: Learning Impact Research Project Phase 1 & 2, part of the development of Inspiring Learning For All, September 2001 – Early 2004
- Education Outside The Classroom: An Assessment of Activity And Practice In Schools and Local Authorities, DFES, National Foundation For Educational Research (NFER) – Slough Office, November 2006
- Education & Skills: Second Report, January 2005, House of Commons Select Committee: Government findings focusing on value of LOtC.
- Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The Value of Museums, (2003-4): an evaluation of DCMS/DCSF National/Regional Museum Partnership Programme 2003-4
- Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The Value of Museums, (2006-7):an evaluation of DCMS/DCSF National/Regional Museum Partnership Programme 2006-7.
- Engaging Places website
- Ofsted report on LOtC: How far should you go? October 2008.
Sources of related and further information
- Heritage Lottery Fund research projects
- The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG)
- A source of education research reports, in the GEM Journal of Education in Museums.
