Many informal educators, and especially outdoor educators in regional and national parks, often call themselves interpreters. We all assume this grew from Freeman Tilden’s 1957 Interpreting Our Heritage, which became a sort of Bible for National Park Service rangers. Tilden’s title and introduction underscored how the...
On this week’s podcast, I talk with Elise McFarland, an Interpretation and Education Manager for the California State Park system. In her far-ranging job, she’s responsible for several parks’ cultural resources and, of course, many levels and modes of interpretation. Like many informal educators – especially outdoor...
In our first podcast, educator Kady Yeomans described her work leading groups of kids on the floor of a large science museum. And the main sense I got from Kady was that she is always thinking about her audience – there are facts to deliver, sure, but there’s no lecture. Here’s how she put it, speaking from her...