Experimentalism in the Field Museum Education: an Empirical Reaserch on the School-Museum Relationship

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The objective of this research was to develop, test, evaluate and validate a model of guided tour with public school. The study covered the trial in a deeper and broader discourse on the relationship between school-museum. The research is part of a study that understands the enjoyment to the cultural heritage and museum as a cultural right to use goods essential to the growth of interpretative repertoires of the student, especially those who belong to low classes. 1. School and Museum in the Logic of Partnership The growing interest developed in recent years around the study of the phenomena related to the link between school and cultural institutions has led the author to deal with the relationship between school and museum in order to try to shed light on certain aspects, wrongly, neglected by pedagogical literature. The underlying assumption moves from the awareness that a complex society such as the one we experience daily necessarily entails interdependence between individual and social changes in the context of teachers, causing them to change their professional behaviour. The focus of school on the museum or cultural good in a wider sense, established in Italy around the Seventies, has therefore led teachers to rethink the didactical work in relation to the evidence of human history as a further source of learning. It is obvious that in order to implement a real educational project, where the school works with the museum to enhance the learning of the museum good, it is necessary to establish partnerships and a mutual cooperation between the two institutions. For those who work in the area of education or museum didactics, the availability of updated data on the use of the museum as an educational resource cannot be considered as an ancillary and random activity, but it must rather be conceived as the fundamental way of working, a systematic educational practice to achieve an effective planning of the interventions. No one can deny the importance of the educational role