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John A. Veverka
Qualifications
After over 30 years of teaching and "doing" interpretation I think that we
can call ourselves "experts" in interpretation. What does that mean -
expert? Click here
for my defination of an "expert in interpretive planning or training".
We are one of the only interpretive consulting firms offering
interpretive planning, training and design services who are staffed by "professionally
trained" interpreters, blending a strong academic background in
interpretation with extensive field experience "doing" interpretation.
John Veverka - President/Owner of JVA  
John received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees majoring in
Interpretive Services from The Ohio State University where he
also taught a course on Interpretive Master Planning. John also spent 5 years
in the Ph.D. program at Michigan State University majoring in
Interpretive Services and teaching Introductory and Advanced Interpretation
Courses. He was also an instructor at Lansing Community College
teaching courses in Business Communications and Speech. John minored in several
areas as well, including recreational marketing, consumer behavior, non-formal education,
psychology of the audience and motivational psychology and related courses.
John is currently a part time lecturer at Snowdonia National Park Training Center -Wales teaching two interpretation courses a year at the training center.
He was also a part time instructor for the West Georgia State University Heritage
Tourism Institute teaching
a variety of heritage interpretation and tourism courses (2002 - 2005).
Early in his career John worked as a seasonal Interpretive
Naturalist for Ohio State Parks; a volunteer interpreter at the Ohio
Historical Society; and was a staff member for 5 years at the Ohio State
University Museum of Zoology.
He has spent 28 years as an interpretive planner, consultant and
trainer, with clients in the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland,
Korea and Spain.
He is the author of the college text book Interpretive Master Planning as well as over 70 articles and publications on interpretation (visit our library for some
examples you can download).
John is also an associate editor for the Journal
of Interpretation.
John is also a National Association for Interpretation:
Certified Interpretive Planner.
Certified Interpretive Trainer
John is also a Certified
Heritage Interpreter - CANADA (This is a National
certification awarded by the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Counsil).
Professional memberships:
The National Association for Interpretation (founding
member).
Interpretation Canada
Interpretation Australia Assoc. Inc.
Heritage Interpretation International
Association for Heritage Interpretation (Fellow).
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural
Museums
At JVA we just don't meet the standards for the state-of-the-art
in interpretive planning and training, we set them!
For more information on our background and experience please feel
free to contact us at: jvainterp@aol.com.
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