Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with 21st century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and pedagogic pivots to create impactful change. 75 colour illus.
A collection that showcases the new paradigm of museum education and marks moments of international change.
This book draws together international perspectives to facilitate deeper thinking, making, and doing practices central to museum engagement across global, local, and glocal contexts. Museums as cultural brokers facilitate public pedagogies, and the dispositions and practices offered in thirty-three chapters from nineteen countries articulate how and why museum collections enact responsibility in public exchange, leading cultural discourses of empowerment in new ways.
Organized into five sections, a wide range of topics and arts-based modes of inquiry imagine new possibilities concerning theory-practice, sustainability of educational partnerships and communities of practice with, in, and through artwork scholarship. Chapters diverse in issues, art forms, and museum orientations are well-situated within museum studies, enlarging discussions with trans-topographies (transdisciplinary, transnational, translocal, and more) as critical directions for art educators. Authors impart collective diversity through richly textured exposés, first-person accounts, essays, and visual essays that enfold cultural activism, sustainable practices, and experimental teaching and learning alongside transformative exhibitions, all while questioning: Who is a learner? What is a museum? Whose art is missing?
Propositions for Museum Education, is a most timely and thought-provoking collection of scholarly perspectives essential all museum professionals seeking to understand and harness the social political and educational changes that are occurring in our societies and institutions. The book champions and proposes hopeful possibilities for museums as contiguous sites of learning for the present day and future realities of institutions who are embedded and connected with communities, from diverse global perspectives. I strongly recommend this book to all seeking to make a positive difference to their museological practice and greater influence on and within the communities in which their museums are embedded.
-- David Anderson Professor of museum and science education, The University of British ColumbiaAnita Sinner is a professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with emphasis on creative geographies in education.
Boyd White is an associate professor (retired, August 2023) from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests are
in the areas of philosophy and art education, with a focus on aesthetics and art criticism.
Trish Osler is a PhD Candidate and researcher in Art Education and Concordia University Public Scholar. Her transdisciplinary practice aims to deepen understanding and awareness of arts-based approaches through embodied engagement with the environment and through artistic inquiry. Research interests draw upon the neuroscience of creativity and museum education.
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