The Educational Role of the MuseumEilean Hooper-Greenhill Psychology Press, 1999 - 346 pagine Grounded in the solid strengths of its first edition, this updated and revised second edition, collates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The Educational Role of the Museum has been entirely restructured and new papers have been added which make this an up-to-date presentation of front-running theory and practice. Covering broad themes relevant to providing for all museum visitors, and also focusing specifically on educational groups, the book is set in four sections which sequentially:
For any student of museum studies, and for professionals too, this book fuses theory with practice in a way that can only serve to enhance their knowledge of the field. |
Sommario
Communication theories | 1 |
Communication in theory and practice | 28 |
strategies of interpretation | 44 |
a semiotic analysis of the Western | 53 |
Learning in museums | 65 |
The constructivist museum | 73 |
Teaching yourself to teach with objects | 80 |
Improving worksheets | 92 |
synthesis and application | 161 |
Spatial considerations | 178 |
The exhibition development process | 191 |
evaluation of the Ekarv method | 205 |
Increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction | 223 |
Thinking about museum audiences | 239 |
a curatorial dilemma | 255 |
Cultural imagining among museum visitors | 269 |
Open windows open doors 66 | 99 |
Museum multicultural education for young learners | 105 |
lifestyles and learning characteristics | 118 |
Whose museum is it anyway? Museum education and the community | 131 |
why does one want to learn? | 146 |
Museums and cultural diversity in contemporary Britain | 288 |
the techniques | 298 |
Pupils perceptions of museum education sessions | 312 |
Sending them home alive | 332 |
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