“…Other studies (Cox & Barrow, 2000;Wright-Maley, Grenier, & Marcus, 2013) note that unique learning opportunities occur when participants interact with peers, professors, and ISHE educational experts at these sites. Previous findings, such as those reported in the work of Falk (2004), Goulding, Walter, andFriedrich (2013), andTrofanenko andSegall (2014), determined that "situating leaning from museums within enlarged scope and scale are not just abstract niceties; they are fundamental to validly determining what is or what is not learned from the museum experience" (Falk, 2004, p. 584). Based on this literature, this study sought to discover if the situated informal learning environment of the ISHE influenced the acquisition and/or refinement of historical disciplinary instructional practices of the pre-service teacher participants.…”