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Guest Editors: Michelle Grohe and Hannah Heller
Submission Deadline: January 17, 2025
As we reflect on the ten-year anniversary of JME Issue 51.1, Empowering Museum Educators to Evaluate, it seems timely to mark this moment by celebrating and acknowledging the variety of advancements we have made as a field in the time since.
Ten years ago, questions focused on concrete strategies and tools for creating a culture of evaluation at your institution, conducting visitor studies with limited resources, and implementing and sharing findings. In many ways, not much has changed; concrete tools and case studies will always be helpful for professional growth, and our resources continue to be as limited as ever. That said, we feel the case for evaluation has been made, and now it is time to turn inward and reflexively consider not just the need to evaluate the impact we have on our public, but how we evaluate that impact.
We invite articles for this issue that examine innovations in the intersection between museum education, evaluation, and audience studies and that reflect contemporary scholarship on the topic. Specifically, we are interested in new ways for museum education practitioners at any level to implement evaluative thinking into their processes – not just at the end of a program, but throughout. What are we curious to understand about the audience experience that we don’t already know? How do these curiosities reflect what our visitors are also curious about? How can we resist a transactional relationship with visitors, staff, and volunteers? How do we ensure that our data is actionable, and ultimately supports our missions to serve our audiences better? How can “my” questions become “our” questions?