Generic Learning Outcomes
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The Generic Learning Outcomes are underpinned by a broad definition of learning which identifies benefits that people gain from interacting with museums, libraries and archives.
Click on each of the five circles to reveal a more detailed description of each outcome
Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowing what or about something
- Learning facts or information
- Making sense of something
- Deepening understanding
- How museums, libraries and archives operate
- Making links and relationships between things
Activity, Behaviour & Progression
- What people do
- What people intend to do
- What people have done
- Reported or observed actions
- A change in the way people manage their lives
Skills
- Knowing how to do something
- Being able to do new things
- Intellectual skills
- Information management skills
- Social skills
- Communication skills
- Physical skills
Enjoyment, Inspiration, Creativity
- Having fun
- Being surprised
- Innovative thoughts
- Creativity
- Exploration, experimentation and making
- Being inspired
Attitudes & Values
- Feelings
- Perceptions
- Opinions about ourselves (e.g. self esteem)
- Opinions or attitudes towards other people
- Increased capacity for tolerance
- Empathy
- Increased motivation
- Attitudes towards an organisation
- Positive and negative attitudes in relation to an experience