Interpreting Difficult History At Museums and Historic Sites

Informationen zum Autor By Julia Rose - Foreword by Jonathan Holloway Klappentext Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of historical individuals, communities, and populations who have suffered.To learn more, check out the website here: http://interpretingdifficulthistory.com/ Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: What We Risk, Jonathan Holloway, Dean of Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures 1. Difficult Knowledge: History that is Too Much to Bear 2. Defining Difficult History: Risks, Reasons and Tools 3. Loss in Learning: Psychoanalytic Framework for Commemorative Museum Pedagogy 4. Response and Responsibility: Ethical Representations of Difficult Histories 5. Expanding and Elevating Slave Life History Interpretations and Uncovering Commemorative Museum Pedagogy 6. Towards a Commemorative Museum Pedagogy Bibliography Index About the Author

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• Authors: Julia Rose, Rose Julia
• Assisted by: Jonathan Holloway (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2016
• EAN: 9780759124370
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-2437-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Interpreting History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Museum Interpretation