Reculturing Museums

Author : Doris B. Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000536171

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Reculturing Museums by Doris B. Ash Pdf

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place? Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances ("Who will pay for museums?"), demographic shifts ("Who will come to museums?"), the roles of narratives ("Whose story is it?"), ownership of objects ("Who owns the artifact?"), and learning and teaching ("What is learning and how can we teach equitably?"). The reculturing stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, ‘making change’ first, within museums, called inreach, rather than outside the museum, called outreach; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic. Reculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that all people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them.

Author : Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781629581712

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Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan Pdf

This book offers a step-by-step guide to historic house museums to make them more informative and sustainable through an inclusive, visitor-centered paradigm of the shared experience of human habitation.

Author : Kevin Coffee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000818475

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Museums and Social Responsibility by Kevin Coffee Pdf

Museums and Social Responsibility examines inherent contradictions within and effecting museum practice in order to outline a museological theory of how museums are important cultural practices in themselves and how museums shape the socio-cultural dynamics of modern societies, especially our attitudes and understandings about human agency and creative potential. Museums are libraries of objects, presenting thematic justification that dominant concepts of normativity and speciality, as well as attitudes of cultural deprecation. By sorting culture into hierarchies of symbolic value, museums cloak themselves in supposed objectivity, delivered with the passion of connoisseurship and the surety of scholarly research. Ulterior motives pertaining to socio-economic class, racial and ethnic othering, and sexual subjugation, are shrouded by that false appearance of objectivity. This book highlights how the socially responsive practitioner can challenge and subvert taken-for-granted motivations by undertaking liberatory museum work that engages subaltern narratives, engages historically disadvantage populations, and co-creates with them dialogical practices of collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting. It points to examples in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, not as self-contained entities but as practices within a global web of relationships, and as microcosms that define normality and abnormality, that engage users in critical dialogue, and that influence, are conditioned by, and disrupt taken-for-granted understandings and practices of class, ethnicity, sex, gender, thinking and being. Suitable for students, researchers, and museum professionals, Museums and Social Responsibility presents a comprehensive argument and proposes critical, reflective processes to the practitioner, so that their museum work may more effectively engage with and change their societies and the world.

Author : Laura W. Martin,Lynn Uyen Tran,Doris B. Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429655708

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The Reflective Museum Practitioner by Laura W. Martin,Lynn Uyen Tran,Doris B. Ash Pdf

The Reflective Museum Practitioner explores a range of expansive and creative ways in which the concept of “reflective practice” has been applied in the informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning environments of museums and zoos. It seeks to demonstrate how such a process can inspire lifelong learning in practitioners, to the benefit of practitioners and visitors alike. Presenting six projects that employed reflective practice, the contributors examine how each project has encouraged and sustained reflection, and the outcomes thereof. The projects cover a wide range of different practitioners—including administrators, scientists, educators, and other front-line and back-room staff—who work at different junctures of their organizations. Collectively, they raise key questions about changing communities of practice in Informal Science Learning institutions. The projects and concept of “reflective practice” are fully defined and contextualized by the editors, who offer in-depth analysis, along with a cultural-historical activity theory framework, for understanding how changes in museum practice unfold in an institutional context. The Reflective Museum Practitioner offers museum professionals insight into “reflective practice,” as practiced by other institutions in their sector, providing practical examples that can be adapted to their needs. It will also be of interest to scholars and students focusing on science museums, or professional practice development in museums.

Author : Patricia G. Patrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031132919

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How People Learn in Informal Science Environments by Patricia G. Patrick Pdf

This edited volume brings together an international perspective of 22 diverse learning theories applied to a range of informal science learning environments. The book is divided into 7 sections: community of practice, critical theory, identity theory, sociocultural, socioscientific, and social entrepreneurship, systems theory, and theory development. The chapters present how researchers from diverse backgrounds and cultures use theories in their work and how these may be applied as theoretical frameworks for future research. The chapters bridge theory and practice and collectively address a wide range of ages (children-adults) and contexts. The book is written to engage a broad audience of researchers in universities and museums, while appealing to the growing number of researchers and educators who recognize the importance of informal learning to the development of environmental and scientific literacy. It is essential reading for inexperienced researchers and those seeking new theoretical perspectives.

Author : Patricia G Patrick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319503981

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Preparing Informal Science Educators by Patricia G Patrick Pdf

This book provides a diverse look at various aspects of preparing informal science educators. Much has been published about the importance of preparing formal classroom educators, but little has been written about the importance, need, and best practices for training professionals who teach in aquariums, camps, parks, museums, etc. The reader will find that as a collective the chapters of the book are well-related and paint a clear picture that there are varying ways to approach informal educator preparation, but all are important. The volume is divided into five topics: Defining Informal Science Education, Professional Development, Designing Programs, Zone of Reflexivity: The Space Between Formal and Informal Educators, and Public Communication. The authors have written chapters for practitioners, researchers and those who are interested in assessment and evaluation, formal and informal educator preparation, gender equity, place-based education, professional development, program design, reflective practice, and science communication. Readers will draw meaning and usefulness from the array of professional perspectives and be stimulated to begin a quest to scaffold programs and professional development around the frameworks described in this book.

Author : Emily Marsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000852189

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Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions by Emily Marsh Pdf

Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions will show you how to create digital exhibits and experiences for your users that will be informative, accessible and engaging. Illustrated with real-world examples of digital exhibits from a range of GLAMs, the book addresses the many analytical aspects and practical considerations involved in the creation of such exhibits. It will support you as you go about: analyzing content to find hidden themes, applying principles from the museum exhibit literature, placing your content within internal and external information ecosystems, selecting exhibit software, and finding ways to recognize and use your own creativity. Demonstrating that an exhibit provides a useful and creative connecting point where your content, your organization, and your audience can meet, the book also demonstrates that such exhibits can provide a way to revisit difficult and painful material in a way that includes frank and enlightened analyses of issues such as racism, colonialism, sexism, class, and LGBTQI+ issues. Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions is an essential resource for librarians, archivists, and other cultural heritage professionals who want to promote their institution’s digital content to the widest possible audience. Academics and students working in the fields of library and information science, museum studies and digital humanities will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.

Author : Sue Dale Tunnicliffe,Annette Scheersoi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401794961

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Natural History Dioramas by Sue Dale Tunnicliffe,Annette Scheersoi Pdf

This book brings together in a unique perspective aspects of natural history dioramas, their history, construction and rationale, interpretation and educational importance, from a number of different countries, from the west coast of the USA, across Europe to China. It describes the journey of dioramas from their inception through development to visions of their future. A complementary journey is that of visitors and their individual sense making and construction of their understanding from their own starting points, often interacting with others (e.g. teachers, peers, parents) as well as media (e.g. labels). Dioramas have been, hitherto, a rather neglected area of museum exhibits but a renaissance is beginning for them and their educational importance in contributing to people’s understanding of the natural world. This volume showcases how dioramas can reach a wide audience and increase access to biological knowledge.

Author : Emily Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351971089

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Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning by Emily Dawson Pdf

Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning explores how some people are excluded from science education and communication. Taking the role of science in society as a starting point, it critically examines the concept of equity in science learning and develops a framework to support inclusive change. This book presents a theoretically informed, empirically detailed analysis of how people from minoritised groups in the UK experience science and everyday science learning resources in their daily lives. The book draws on two years of ethnographic research carried out in London with five community groups who identified as Asian, Somali, Afro-Caribbean, Latin American and Sierra Leonean. Exploring their experiences of everyday science learning from a sociological perspective, with social justice as a guiding concern, this book opens with a theory of exclusion and closes with a theory of inclusion. Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning is not only an essential text for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers of Science Education, Science Communication and Museum Studies, but for any professional working in museums, science centres and institutional public engagement.

Author : Harouna Ba,Katherine McMillan Culp,Margaret Honey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351333153

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Design Make Play for Equity, Inclusion, and Agency by Harouna Ba,Katherine McMillan Culp,Margaret Honey Pdf

Focuses on the hot-button issue of STEM education and how to effectively—and equitably—stimulate student interest in STEM fields Supported by the lead author’s extensive speaking schedule and media contacts Features leading-edge research and practical advice and provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to creative STEM learning Contributions from program developers, facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers

Author : Thomas Hayden,Erika Check Hayden,Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer,Raychelle Burks
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889766826

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Inclusive Science Communication in Theory and Practice by Thomas Hayden,Erika Check Hayden,Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer,Raychelle Burks Pdf

Author : Kenneth Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349017577

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A Social History of Museums by Kenneth Hudson Pdf

Author : Peggy Levitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520961456

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Artifacts and Allegiances by Peggy Levitt Pdf

What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country’s cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large.

Author : Margaret Tali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351626347

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Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums by Margaret Tali Pdf

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence productively. Drawing on social art history, museology, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and the Kumu Museum in Tallinn.

Author : Louise Tythacott,Kostas Arvanitis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317092865

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Museums and Restitution by Louise Tythacott,Kostas Arvanitis Pdf

This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores contemporary practices and recent claims, and investigates to what extent the question of restitution as an issue of ownership is still at large, or whether museums have found additional ways to conceptualise and practice restitution, by thinking beyond the issue of ownership. The challenges, benefits and drawbacks of recent and current museum practice are explored. At the same time, the book discusses how these museum practices are received , and informed, by source communities, institutional and governmental agendas and visitors' expectations in order to explore issues of authority, collaboration and shared or conflicting values between the different communities involved in the process. This important book will contribute to the developing body of literature that academics, professionals, policy makers and students can refer to in order to understand how restitution has been negotiated, 'materialised', practiced and evaluated within museums.