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A Special National Docent Symposium Project to Benefit All Docents

The National Docent Symposium Council has published The Docent Handbook. This was available for the first time at the San Antonio Symposium.

The The Docent Handbook is a practical guide written by Docents for Docents at all levels of expertise and is applicable to every type of institution.

This publication addresses current concerns and material pertinent to issues now being explored in museums.

The topics discussed will aid new docents and guides in meeting visitors, developing themes, and knowing how to ask the right questions. Experienced docents will find the The Docent Handbook a convenient tool in approaching sensitive issues and for training in observation-based touring.

A quick glance at the Table of Contents:

Foundations
Points of Departure
On Language or What's in a Word?
Learning Styles
Know your Audience
On Seeing or Learning from Objects
Asking Questions: Observation-based Touring
Act it Out! Hands On!
Sensitive Issues
Dealing with Problems and Attitudes
Looking Back and Facing the Future
The History of the National Docent Symposium Council
Suggestions for Additional Reading Handbook Authors
Authors Helga Keller(L) and Carole Kramer(R)
showingThe Docent Handbook
at the San Antonio Symposium.

To Order your copy: Please send a check for $17.50 ($15.00 plus $2.50 postage) payable to the National Docent Symposium Council.

Mail your order to:
Sue Whitaker, NDSC
1071 Denman Court
Westerville, Ohio 43081-4552

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