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Interview with Claire Welsh - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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ER: You mentioned earlier on about learning being social. Something I've noticed is that the individual nature of learning (with the) exhibits. Do you want to talk a bit about whether you agree that some of the exhibits are based on individualistic notions of learning.

CW. Yeah, I, I think it's just difficult to find ways of doing things so that more than one person has to, has to be involved. I know some of the, science museum exhibits they've tried ways of getting, you know where more than one person has to be involved and, and I think it's been very difficult, some of the, they've been quite ambitious in some of the games that they're doing where, you know. I, I went and joined in with a game and about 8 people all playing it and it was just complicated to sort of work out was going on. I think ideally it would be nice to have more things where, where people have, you have to have more than one person. But I think it's just, but I think it's just, actually difficult, difficult to do, so. I think with children it's not too bad because children'll talk to each other and, help each other and, you know, be involved, with each other, in the, in the whole process anyway.