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This collection considers how Canadian art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, and why educators are responding to 21st century challenges in ways that are unique to Canada. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and how practices create impactful change. With the overarching concept of relationality between art museums and interdisciplinary perspectives, authors consider methodological, philosophical, experiential and aesthetic forms of inquiry in regional museum contexts from coast-to-coast-to-coast that bring forward innovative theoretical standpoints with practice-based projects in museums, articulating how museums are shifting, and why museums are evolving as sites that mediate different and multiple knowledges for the future. Informed by social justice perspectives, and as catalysts for public scholarship, each chapter is passionate in addressing the mobilization of equity, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in relation to practices in the field. By weaving the learning potential of interacting with artworks more fully within situated and localized social and cultural communities, the authors present a distinct socio-political discourse at the heart of teaching and learning. Rupturing preconceived ideas and sedimentary models, they suggest a discourse of living futures is already upon us in museums and in art education.
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
Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and how practices create impactful change. 54 col. illus.
