In this chapter we introduce the notion of islands of expertise, explore links between related socio-cultural and information processing theory, and overview a study of family conversations while parents and children look at authentic and replica fossils in a museum.
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Melanie Jacobs
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University of Pittsburgh
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Learning Conversations in Museums
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