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The Educational Role of the Museum
Contributor(s): Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean (Editor)
ISBN: 0415198275     ISBN-13: 9780415198271
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $52.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: In this updated and revised second edition, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill incorporates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. "The Educational Role of the Museum" covers broad themes relevant to providing for all museum visitors and also focuses specifically on educational groups. Contributors discuss topics such as new communication models for the museum, problems in visitor orientation and circulation, and increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction. This edition represents the most developed position of the state of the field of museum education and introduces theories that have the potential to move current professional debates into more critical areas.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Organizations & Institutions
- Education | Administration - General
Dewey: 371.384
LCCN: 98034491
Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.86" W x 9.66" (1.45 lbs) 368 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Grounded in the solid strengths of its first edition, this updated and revised second edition, collates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences.

The Educational Role of the Museum has been entirely restructured and new papers have been added which make this an up-to-date presentation of front-running theory and practice.

Covering broad themes relevant to providing for all museum visitors, and also focusing specifically on educational groups, the book is set in four sections which sequentially:

  • chart the development of museum communication
  • relate constructivist learning theory to specific audiences with different learning needs
  • apply this learning theory to the development of museum exhibitions
  • pose questions about the way museums conceptualize audiences.

For any student of museum studies, and for professionals too, this book fuses theory with practice in a way that can only serve to enhance their knowledge of the field.