Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery …
1. Introduction / Juliette FritschPart 1 Situating interpretation in the museum context2. The Museum as a social instrument : a democratic conception of museum education / George E. Hein3. Invoking the Muse : the purposes and processes of communicative action in museums / Paulet…
Suitable for cultural institutions and informal educators, this is a leading expert's guide to retaining visitors and understanding visitor behavior. Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, gro…
Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor experience, which extends far …
Learning conversations in museums
by ProQuest (Firm), Crowley, Kevin, Leinhardt, Gaea, Knutson, Karen
Teaching and learning in non-school settings such as museums is a topic of increasing interest to researchers in psychology, education, cognitive science, and museum education.
The creation, maintenance, revision, and destruction of public memory is inherently a multimodal rhetorical process, and architecture, objects, images, sound, and texts are among the persuasive resources that can be marshalled at sites of public memory. The production of public …
This volume explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives and memorials. It follows students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest, at local sites and in digital spaces. From composing and delivering museum tours, to…
