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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?
About the author
Anita Sinner is professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with an emphasis on creative geographies in education.
Boyd White retired in August 2023 as associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of philosophy and art education, with a focus on aesthetics and art criticism.
Trish Osler has a PhD in art education and is a former Concordia University Public Scholar. Her transdisciplinary practice aims to deepen understanding of arts-based approaches through embodied engagement with the environment and through artistic inquiry, with research interests that draw upon the neuroscience of creativity and museum education.
Summary
Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with 21st century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and pedagogic pivots to create impactful change. 75 colour illus.
