The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education is a practical reference guide that shows how museums, galleries and heritage sites can offer opportunities for successful visitor engagement.
Defining museums as all cultural sites that interpret collections and spaces for public education, understanding and enjoyment, this volume argues that museum education has a central role in the development of policies, practices, and research for engagement. Including contributions from experts across the globe, the volume shows how these sites can continue to offer unique opportunities for social, physical, emotional, and academic engagement that are much needed to inform and empower museum visitors internationally. It also demonstrates how museums, galleries and heritage sites can be utilised for the betterment and sustainability of our world and the societies we live in. Combining rich theory with innovative practice, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of museum and heritage education today.
The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education will be of interest to academics, students and professionals who are based in the fields of Museum Education, Heritage, Adult and Community Education, Cultural Studies, Social Studies, Psychology and Tourism.
The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education is a practical reference guide that shows how museums, galleries and heritage sites can offer opportunities for successful visitor engagement.
List of contributors; SECTION ONE : Setting the context: museum and
heritage education a force for change 1.Defending Museum Education; 2.The
Rise of a Profession - Museum Education: From Enlightenment to Empowerment;
3. Philosophical Perspectives on the Educational Dimensions of Museums;
4.
Who Pays the Piper and Who Calls the Tune?;
5. Museums as Pillars of the
Establishment or Agents of Change: Smithsonian initiatives; 6.Decolonisation:
what does it mean for museum education?; 7.Empowering Museum Educators:
achieving equity, inclusion, and professional recognition; SECTION TWO:
Theory and experience in museum education: pedagogies in practice
8.
Pedestals or Portals? An exploration of representations of museums and museum
learning in and through childrens literature;
9. Into the History in
Open-Air Museums;
10. Connecting Children to Art and Cultural Heritage;
11.
Time and Place: sites of memory and the sense of history;
12. Embracing the
Untouchable: strategies for engaging learners with intangible heritage;
13.
Uncovering the Authentic Unknown: the place of mystery in museum education
archaeological museums;
14. Speaking Visual the Importance of Visual
Literacy in Art Museum Education;
15. Making sense of Scotland - Creative use
of Scotlands Historic Environment as a National Resource to Support Learning
and Inclusion;
16. Light after Loss: the role of museum and heritage
education in guiding grief and nurturing empathy; SECTION THREE: A virtuous
circle: the role of research in museum and heritage education
17. Science
Centres and Museums: public laboratories for studying free-choice/informal
science learning;
18. Evidence-based Museum Education;
19. Staging Climate:
art, nature, culture in the production of knowledge in the museum;
20.
Facilitating Object-based Learning Through Digital Touch Replicas when
Collections are Untouchable;
21. Archival Institutions as Laboritaries for
Change;
22. Engagement and Education at the Barbados Museum & Historical
Society: a praxis for sustainability;
23. Changing Minds: how intergroup
contact through participatory arts can improve dementia care; SECTION 4: Open
doors, open minds: nurturing museum accessibility and inclusivity for a more
democratic model
24. Engaging Everyone Participation as a Means and an End
within Museum Education and Practice;
25. Young adults (age 18-30) as a
specific target group within cultural institutions practice considerations
for curators of education;
26. Reaching out: changing the visitor social
dynamic; 27 Policies and Practices of Museum Education and Social Inclusion -
the Case of Egyptian Museums;
28. Memorial sites as catalysts for healing and
hope: confronting and interpreting difficult and traumatic history for formal
learning purposes;
29. Here and Queer: an evolving Practice of LGBTQ+
Heritage Engagement in the UK;
30. Getting to know you facilitating visitor
identity and relatability in Mexican museums; SECTION FIVE: Future-proofing:
how museum education can take a more forward-looking stance
31. Museum
Education, Activist Pedagogies, and Forced Migration: or, how can museum
education change the world?;
32. Culture and Connectivity: how digital is
shaping the future of museum education (with a note of caution);
33. Building
Nuance: using museum education to move away from black-and-white thinking in
India;
34. Unlocking Industrial Heritage Meanings and Legacies for the
Post-industrial Generations;
35. Telling Another Tale: feminist pedagogical
strategies toward a sense of agency;
36. Racial Hauntings: enfigurement in
the modern South African museum;
37. Shaping a Reinvigorated Cultural
Landscape: exploring museum education practices and perspectives in the
Middle East;
38. What Next? museum and heritage education, and sustainable
development; Index.
Maggie McColl is Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she has taught Arts Education for over 20 years.
Pete Brown is an independent Museums and Heritage Consultant, with a MA in Interpretive Studies from the University of Leicester.
Michelle Delaney is Assistant Director for History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, leading the museum scholarship division.
Karl Borromäus Murr is Director of the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg and Chairman of the European Museum Academy.
Henrik Zipsane is Director of the European Museum Academy and an expert in heritage education and adult education at the Swedish Council for Higher Education and the European Commission.
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