Organizing interactive museum environment: From methods to models
In modern education milieu the important part is devoted to the problem of educational environment, which helps to reveal hidden talents and creative potential of the individual. The effectiveness of the educational environment is defined by the participant's activity which also assists in fulfilling important didactical tasks. A special role in this process belongs to the interactive communication environment that means the availability of various levels of teacherstudent cooperation. These levels correspond with general understanding of cooperation as lineal, reactive and multiple interactions. Application of interactive methodology in the museum environment helps to organize effective cooperative work of a teacher with her/his students, assists in achieving the educational aims and promotes more flexible usage of universal didactical methods. According to this, interactivity is viewed as a basic principle of pedagogical activity in the museum. Its levels correspond to the traditional active and interactive methods of teaching which help to define analogical didactical models. The interactive model «museum 2.0» (participatory museum) is considered the most applicable among them.