Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries : : Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change / / edited by Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell, Kay Johnson.

This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The...

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Superior document:International Issues in Adult Education
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:International Issues in Adult Education
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXII, 264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Activism, Subversion and Radical Practice
  • Shut Up and Be Quiet! Icelandic Museums’ Promotion of Critical Public Pedagogy and the 2008 Financial Crisis
  • St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art: A Space to Speak, Discuss and be Heard
  • Adult Education and Radical Museology: The Role of the Museum as an Archive of the Commons
  • Art and Commitment: Galleries without Walls: Propositions
  • The Victoria and Albert Museum: A Subversive, Playful Pedagogy in Action
  • Section 2: Women in Clothes: (Re)Gendering Practices and Pedagogies
  • Knowing Their Place: Feminist and Gendered Understandings of Women Museum Adult Educators
  • Daughters of Joy? A Feminist Analysis of the Narratives of Miss Laura’s Social Club
  • Re-Educating the Educators: Re-Envisioning Digital Civics & Participative Learning Practice in Black Women’s Community-Led Heritage Projects
  • Contemporary Art as Pedagogical Challenge: Must Gender Remain an Obstacle in Portugal?
  • Performing and Activating: Case Studies in Feminising and Decolonising the Gallery
  • Section 3: Re-Imagining, Representing, Remaking
  • Decolonising Museum Pedagogies: “Righting History” and Settler Education in the City of Vancouver
  • Formally Informal: Confronting Race through Public Narratological Pedagogy in a Museum Space
  • Exhibiting Dark Heritage: Representations of Community Voice in the War Museum
  • From Narration to Poïesis: The Local Museum as a Shared Space for Life-Based and Art-Based Learning
  • Muża: Participative Museum Experiences and Adult Education
  • Section 4: Performing, Intervening, Deconstructing
  • Casting Light and Shadow: Reflections on a Non-Formal Adult Learning Course
  • The Opportunities and Risks of Community Docent Training as Adult Learning: Love and Labor at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
  • Museum Hacking as Adult Education: Teachers Creating Disturbances and Embracing Dissonances
  • Adult Education in Art Galleries: Inhabiting Social Criticism and Change through Transformative Artistic Practices
  • QR Codes: The Canary in the Coal Mine
  • Index. .