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?
Table of Contents Preface-ing Anita Sinner, Boyd White and Patricia Osler The Promise of Museums: An Introduction Dónal O’Donoghue I: Decolonizing Museums Displays of Inhumanity and the Inhumanity of Displays: Dialogue at the Junctures of Contemporary Art, Museum Collections and Hate Speech Raphael Vella and Shaun Grech Museums as Intersectional Spaces for Artivist Solidarity Riikka Haapalainen, Anniina Suominen, Tiina Pusa, Jasmin Järvinen and Melanie Orenius Decolonizing Benjamin Franklin House Through Comics: Reflections and Potential Kremena Dimitrova Community Museums: Dialogical Spaces for Knowledge Creation, Mobilization and Income Generation for Marginalized Citizens in Brazil Bruno de Oliveira Jayme “Becoming Ecological” for Nature Conservation: Insights from Two Museums in the Island State of lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia Abbey MacDonald, Annalise Rees, Jan Hogan and Benjamin J. Richardson On the Possibility of Reconstructing a Contested Past Through Memory Museums in Turkey Esra Yildiz II: Museums of Purpose Disrupting Museum Education: Counter-Monument as a Pedagogical Space Susana Vargas-Mejía Korundi Recreated: Participatory Experience Creates a Dialogue Between Past and Present Anniina Koivurova and Tatiana Kravtsov Be the Nature: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Art Museum Pedagogy Timo Jokela, Maria Huhmarniemi and Tanja Mäkitalo Interpretation Design at a Crossroads with Museum Education Richard Lachapelle The Portuguese Contemporary Art Museum Today João Pedro Fróis Museum-School Partnership: Synergizing Paradigmatic Engagements Attwell Mamvuto Every School is a Museum: The Case of “Art for Learning Art” in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Joaquín Roldán, Andrea Rubio-Fernández and Ángela Moreno-Córdoba III: Pedagogic Pivots Not Knowing: Creating Spaces for Co-curation Deborah Riding Children’s Voices: Making Children’s Perspectives Visible in Gallery Spaces Lilly Blue and Sue Girak The Art of Learning Art Paloma Palau-Pellicer, Maria Avariento-Adsuara and Paola Ruiz-Moltó Out of the Museum into the Art Lise Sattrup and Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen Thinking Ahead in Art Education.... Rolf Laven and Wolfgang Weinlich Social Functions of Museum Education in Double Peripheries: Between Museology and Sociology Dominik Porczyński The Role of the University Museum in Museum Education: The Example of the University of Tartu Museum Jaanika Anderson IV: Sites of Sensorial Practice “You Have to Form Your Mediators. It’s a Series”: On Mediation, Encounters and Deleuze in the Art Museum Marie-France Berard Learning Changes the Museum Ricardo Marín-Viadel and Joaquín Roldán Encounters on the Fringe of a Museum Tour – Trailing Behind as a Site of Affective Intensities Keven Lee, Melissa Park and Marilyn Lajeunesse The Educational Turn and A/r/tography: An Interplay Between Curating, Education and Artmaking Jaime Mena and Guadalupe Pérez-Cuesta Redescribing Territories: Inhabiting the Continuum of Art Production and Education Lene Crone Jensen and Hilde Østergaard Senses and Sensibility: Finding the Balance in Sensory Museum Education Emilie Sitzia Towards a More Human-Centred Museum: A Narrative of an Imagined Visit to a Trauma-Aware Art Museum Jackie Armstrong, Laura Evans, Stephen Legari, Ronna Tulgan Ostheimer, Andrew Palamara and Emily Wiskera V: Virtual Museums The Art of Teaching in the Museum: A Proposition for Pedagogy of Dissensus Lisbet Skregelid The Virtual of Abstract Art: Museum Educational Encounters with Concrete Abstraction Heidi Kukkonen Projection-Based Augmented Reality for Visual Learning and Creation in Contemporary Art Museums Rocío Lara-Osuna and Xabier Molinet Co-imagining the Museum of the Future: Meaningful Interactions Among Art(efacts), Visitors and Technology in Museum Spaces Priscilla Van Even, Annika Wolff, Stefanie Steinbeck, Anne Pässilä and Kevin Vanhaelewijn Immersive Museum Technologies in Turkey and Future Projections in the Field Ceren Güneröz and Ayşem Yanar A New Pedagogy of Museology? Innovative Changes in Museum Education for Cultural Heritage, Social Communication and Participation: A Case Study Renata Pater Biographies Index
Anita 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.
Reviews for Propositions for Museum Education: International Art Educators in Conversation
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 Columbia *
