Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/2. (2011)
Museum Pedagogy
Monica DUMITRU of such a teaching system is that it does not take full advantage of the fundamental process of memorizing, instead it develops them with logical memorizing of the facts, in order for students to have the ability to cape better with the data and also with the basic knowledge. The thinking operations, the behavior, the cognitive abilities, attitudes, all of this are evolving and developing in terms of solid basic knowledge, well structured. All teaching systems from Romania and not only, concentrate on more theory and less practice. The school is supposed to represent one of the essential institutions among the educational system and it’s main formal teaching methods should be improved with a mixture of non-formal and informal education. The fine line between these three forms of education is the theoretical one, in practice, all of them, united, should work as a whole, which will definitely make it difficult for us to determine each one individually. Moreover, lately we are taking part at the formalization of the non-formal education, which seems to be approaching the school more and more. The non-formal education does not include herself among a prototype of organization, but it involves, in general, cultural institutions (museums, theatres, libraries etc.), non-governmental organizations and other institutions which have in common the culture and education. Thus, this particular type of education has the possibility to reach a whole new level by using whatever represents a positive source from those mentioned above. Occidental European teaching system has also made working with children and youngsters in areas dealing with the patrimony, as one of it ’s main priorities. Due to the patrimony’s infinite background information along with it’s aesthetical side, it can permanently stimulate this category of individuals to a more approachable way of digesting the information. Through the non-formal education sustained by the museum’s policy, this cultural institution offers a large variety of suitable social experiences useful for each category of age, bringing a new meaning to the concept of education, by promoting: a better organization of student’s free time, new opportunities based on offering innovative life experiences for those involved in such programs (flexible and opened framework, diversified learning environments, volunteer, individual and collective participation at lessons and not least, flexible ways or properly answering to students interests), each student possibility of freely choosing which activity suits him best, the development of lifetime competences and also the process of turning students into active citizens. Besides the information and competences typically for certain fields which include non-formal museum projects and activities, the students get the chance to develop organizatoric, self-administration, time managing, critical thinking, decisions making and also salving problems abilities. The museum can also be described as being practice and improvement field of various proclyvities, skills and capacities in the areas which concern: the painting, trade art, music, theatre, teaching, PR and also safe way of enhancing the common sense of beauty. In nowadays society, the museums have gained popularity in matters of teaching methods, due to the fact that the actual teaching process is efficiently stimulated through: the assimilation of a new package of knowledge and also a touch of creativity. The purpose of such an activity still concerns the well-being of students in the way that, by having free access to the museum’s patrimony, they can relate the information received at school with something more tangible. It is also important to mention that, with involvement of the museum among the teaching, it is being emphasized the artwork potential of the patrimony and it’s extraordinary capacity of intriguing the intellect and also the human sensibility with the purpose of making sure the youngsters pay actual attention to the true values represented by the patrimony and that they manage to shape a proper moral, cultural and civil profile. 122
