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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462984503321

Titolo

Museums and higher education working together : challenges and opportunities / / edited by Anne Boddington, Jos Boys and Catherine Speight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-09292-9

1-315-59647-4

1-317-09291-0

1-4094-4877-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoddingtonAnne

BoysJos

SpeightCatherine

Disciplina

069.071/1

Soggetti

Museums - Study and teaching (Higher)

Museum techniques - Study and teaching

Museums - Educational aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Policy, pedagogies and possibilities. -- Introduction / Catherine Speight, Anne Boddington and Jos Boys -- Strategic alliances, knowledge exchange and opportunities. -- Learning activities, learning outcomes and learning theory / Stephen Brown -- Internships in museum studies: learning at the interface / Elizabeth A. Beckmann -- Understanding the distributed museum : mapping the spaces of museology in contemporary culture / Susana Smith Bautista and Anne Balsamo -- Learning at the interface : the museum as public laboratory / Richard Watermeyer -- Curating, collecting and creative practices. -- Keeping good company: art schools and museums / Sarah Ganz Blythe -- Curating emerging design practice / Gareth Williams -- Artist-led curatorial practice : mediating knowledge, experience and opinion / Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen -- Expectations, assumptions and obstructions. -- "Museums and galleries? No thanks, not for me" : -- A



critical review of attitudes to museum and gallery visits among university students on an education degree programme / Carrie Winstanley -- Tales from the coalface / Leanne Manfredi and Rebecca Reynolds -- Enhancing observational skills : a case study : collaboration between a University art museum and its medical school / Linda K. Friedlaender, M.S -- Object based learning : a powerful pedagogy for higher education / Leonie Hannan, Rosalind Duhs, Helen Chatterjee -- Conclusion : Opportunities for the future / Jos Boys, Anne Boddington and Catherine Speight.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last twenty years the educational role of the museum has come to be central to its mission. There are now far more educational opportunities, new spaces, new interfaces - both digital and physical, and a growing number of education and interpretation departments, educational curators and public engagement programmes. Despite these developments, however, higher education has remained a marginal collaborator compared to primary and secondary schools and to other forms of adult learning. This has meant that the possibilities for partnerships between universities, colleges, museums and ga