Infographics & Posters
How Art Museums Appeal to Teenagers
In order for successful teenage art museum programs to work mutually well for both students and art museums, a holistic approach to understanding what factors play a role in this process is helpful. This infographic is based off case study research conducted by Susan Striepe in 2012. The case study research involved an examination of eighteen art museum teenage program websites, four interviews with teenage program managers, and three on-site field observations. All of the art museums examined were located in major cities in the United States and were all highly regarded. The data analysis took the form of the constant comparative method of grounded analysis as laid out by Glaser and Strauss (1967). The interpretation of the data yielded six categories that demonstrated a hierarchical relationship to one another. The category of identity (a complex array of qualities that related to how teenagers viewed themselves, their relationship to others and the roles they envisioned for themselves) featured most prominently in the data followed by: cognitive (issues related to learning); program (referred to the structuring of the museum programs, for example collaboration, selection processes, and self-reflection); diversity (the relationships between demographics and the various aspects of the programming); socialization (as seen by the way the students socially interacted with one another); and engagement (evidenced in how excited, passionate, or emotionally involved the students were in the program). This radial chart demonstrates visually that even though these categories have a hierarchical ranking, each category contributes value and importance to the overall strength and integrity of the program and that the programs function through the interrelationships of these qualities as represented through the six categories. The research concluded with four understandings:
References Glaser, B. G. & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. New Brunswick, NJ: AldineTransaction. |
Interrelationships of the various qualities that contribute to teen programs in art museums.
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