Propositions for Museum Education

International Art Educators in Conversation

Edited by Anita Sinner, Patricia Osler, Boyd White

Publication date:

10 June 2024

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

244x170mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781789389135

From the perspective of art educators, museum education is shifting to a new paradigm, which this collection showcases and marks as threshold moments of change underway internationally. The goal in drawing together international perspectives is 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 33 chapters from 19 countries articulate how and why 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

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.