Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries - Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change

Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries - Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change

von: Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell, Kay Johnson

SensePublishers, 2016

ISBN: 9789463006873

Sprache: Englisch

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Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries - Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change



  TABLE OF CONTENTS 6  
  INTRODUCTION 8  
     CONTEXTUALISING THE COLLECTION: ANIMATING CONCERNS 8  
     MUSEUMS: ILLUSION, REALITY AND POSSIBILITY 11  
     ADULT EDUCATION AND LEARNING: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 12  
     SECTION ONE: ACTIVISM, SUBVERSION AND RADICAL PRACTICE 14  
     SECTION TWO: WOMEN IN CLOTHES: (RE)GENDERING PRACTICES AND PEDAGOGIES 16  
     SECTION THREE: RE-IMAGINING, REPRESENTING, REMAKING 17  
     SECTION FOUR: PERFORMING, INTERVENING, DECONSTRUCTING 19  
     REFERENCES 21  
  SECTION 1: ACTIVISM, SUBVERSION AND RADICAL PRACTICE 24  
     1. SHUT UP AND BE QUIET! Icelandic Museums’ Promotion of Critical Public Pedagogy and the 2008 Financial Crisis 25  
        INTRODUCTION 25  
        CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 26  
           Critical Public Pedagogy 26  
           Social Movement Learning 26  
        DISPLAYING PROTEST AS PUBLIC PEDAGOGY 28  
           Haltu Kjafti og Vertu Þæg (Shut Up and Be Quiet!) 28  
           Segja Þessir Hlutir Söguna? (Do These Things Tell a Story?) 32  
        DISCUSSION 33  
        NOTE 35  
        REFERENCES 35  
     2. ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ARTA: Space to Speak, Discuss and be Heard 37  
        INTRODUCTION 37  
        ST MUNGO AND NEUTRALITY 37  
        CRITICAL, ISSUE-BASED ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMMES 38  
        FLEXIBILITY AND PLANNING 40  
           Dealing with Sensitive Issues 42  
           Safety and Respect 43  
        SPONTANEITY 44  
           Finding Commonalities 46  
        FINAL THOUGHTS: TRAINING 46  
        REFERENCES 47  
        WEBSITES 47  
     3. ADULT EDUCATION AND RADICAL MUSEOLOGY: The Role of the Museum as an Archive of the Commons 48  
        INTRODUCTION 48  
        THE ART WORLD 49  
           Where Does Adult Education Fit into All of This? 50  
        DOCUMENTARY AND THE SOCIAL TURN 51  
        FINAL THOUGHTS 55  
        REFERENCES 56  
        VISUAL REFERENCES 58  
     4. ART AND COMMITMENT: GALLERIES WITHOUT WALLS: Propositions 59  
        INTRODUCTION 59  
        THE EMO-ACTIVE TURN 60  
        THE PRESENCE OF CHOICE 61  
        RE – LEARN 62  
        CRITICALITY 64  
        DISFIGUREMENT 65  
        DIFFERENTLY 67  
        WALLS 69  
        SHIFT 70  
        REFERENCES 71  
     5. THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM: A Subversive, Playful Pedagogy in Action 72  
        INTRODUCTION 72  
        AN IMPERIAL SPECTACLE 73  
        AN EDUCATIONAL IMPERATIVE 74  
        THE V&A IN ACTION: PEDAGOGY THROUGH EXHIBITION 75  
           Inter-Disciplinarity and Blurring of Genres 75  
           The Cast Courts 77  
           The British Exhibition 77  
           Exploring Democracy and Dangerous Knowledge 78  
        CONCLUSION 81  
        REFERENCES 81  
        WEBSITES 82  
  SECTION 2: WOMEN IN CLOTHES: (RE)GENDERING PRACTICES AND PEDAGOGIES 83  
     6. KNOWING THEIR PLACE: Feminist and Gendered Understandings of Women Museum Adult Educators 84  
        HISTORICAL GENDERED TERRAIN OF MUSEUMS 85  
        WHAT ACADEMIC BACKGROUNDS AND KNOWLEDGE COUNT? 88  
           Wither Feminism/Women? 88  
        GENDERED TRAITS 88  
        FEMINISM MEANS BIAS 89  
        NON-PRACTISING FEMINISTS 90  
        PLAYING WITH FIRE 90  
        FEMINISM IN MOTION 91  
        FINAL THOUGHTS 92  
        REFERENCES 93  
     7. DAUGHTERS OF JOY? A Feminist Analysis of the Narratives of Miss Laura’s Social Club 96  
        INTRODUCTION 96  
        OUR PERSONAL STORIES 97  
        OLD TOWN WEST 98  
        BACKGROUND 99  
        PORTRAIT OF MISS LAURA’S SOCIAL CLUB 100  
        THE MASTER NARRATIVES: MASTERFUL MADAMS 102  
           Cathouse Cinderellas 103  
           Elitism and the Queen of the Row 103  
        CONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS 104  
        REFERENCES 106  
     8. RE-EDUCATING THE EDUCATORS: Re-Envisioning Digital Civics & Participative Learning Practicein Black Women’s Community-Led Heritage Projects 107  
        INTRODUCTION: EDUCATION AS TRANSFORMATION 107  
        ARRIVALS: CONSTRUCTING THE HERITAGE OF THE NORTH EAST 109  
        REWRITING THE HERITAGE EDUCATION NARRATIVE 112  
           Participation as a Learning Tool 113  
           Transforming Learning Cultures 114  
           Wider Learning Impact 115  
        CONCLUSIONS: EDUCATING THE EDUCATORS 116  
        ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 117  
        REFERENCES 118  
     9. CONTEMPORARY ART AS PEDAGOGICAL CHALLENGE: Must Gender Remain an Obstacle in Portugal? 119  
        INTRODUCTION 119  
        REVOLUTION STARTS… AT HOME? 120  
        MY STORY 121  
        A CHANGE OF PARADIGM 122  
        THE GARDEN 122  
        FEMINISM AND INCLUSION AT CASA DA CERCA 123  
        OBSTACLES 124  
        TRYING TO OVERCOME 125  
        GENDER AND EDUCATION IN THE MUSEUM 126  
        FINAL WORDS 127  
        NOTE 128  
        REFERENCES 128  
        WEBSITES 129  
     10. PERFORMING AND ACTIVATING: Case Studies in Feminising and Decolonising the Gallery 130  
        INTRODUCTION 130  
        POSITIONALITY AND ETHNOBOTANY: BEING IN RELATION TO THE LAND 130  
        THE ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA: TOWARDS A FEMINISED, DECOLONISED GALLERY 131  
        TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST ART EDUCATION 133  
        PERFORMING FEMININITY 134  
        ACTIVATING EMILY 137  
        FINAL THOUGHTS 138  
        REFERENCES 139  
        WEBSITES 140  
  SECTION 3: RE-IMAGINING, REPRESENTING, REMAKING 141  
     11. DECOLONISING MUSEUM PEDAGOGIES: “Righting History” and Settler Education in the City of Vancouver 142  
        INTRODUCTION 142  
        SITUATING MYSELF 142  
        COLONIALISM AND THE EDUCATION OF THE CANADIAN PUBLIC 143  
        MUSEUMS, DECOLONISATION, AND PUBLIC PEDAGOGY 145  
        MUSEUM POSSIBILITIES: ONE EXHBITION AND THREE LEARNING JOURNEYS 146  
        FIRST JOURNEY: JANUARY 25, 2015 147  
           The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) 147  
           The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) 149  
        SECOND JOURNEY: JUNE 7, 2015 149  
           The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) 149  
        THIRD JOURNEY: NOVEMBER 10, 2015 150  
           The Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre and Gallery 150  
           The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) 150  
           The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) 151  
        FINAL THOUGHTS 151  
        REFERENCES 152  
     12. FORMALLY INFORMAL: Confronting Race through Public Narratological Pedagogy in a Museum Space 154  
        INTRODUCTION 154  
        ADULT EDUCATION, MUSEUMS, AND NARRATIVES 155  
        THE MUSEUM VISIT 158  
        RESTORYING IDENTITY: CONNECTION 161  
        AWARENESS 162  
        OWNERSHIP 163  
        CONCLUSIONS 163  
        REFERENCES 164  
     13. EXHIBITING DARK HERITAGE: Representations of Community Voice in the War Museum 166  
        INTRODUCTION 166  
        THE CHALLENGES OF THE WAR MUSEUM 167  
        ADULT EDUCATION THROUGH DIALOGIC PRACTICE 168  
        VETERAN VOICE AND THE WAR MUSEUM 170  
           Bomber Command 170  
        PEACE EXHIBITION 172  
        FINAL THOUGHTS 174  
        REFERENCES 175  
     14. FROM NARRATION TO POÏESIS: The Local Museum as a Shared Space for Life-Based and Art-Based Learning 177  
        INTRODUCTION 177  
        BEYOND SELF-NARRATION: PARTICIPATIVE PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS 177  
        THE LIFE(ST)ART PROJECT 179  
        FROM KNOWLEDGE TO KNOWING, FROM ART TO TRANSFORMATION 180  
           The Workshop: A Metaphorical Dispositive 180  
           Authentic Experience 183  
           Aesthetic Representation 184  
           Intelligent Understanding 184  
           Deliberate Action 184  
        POÏESIS, BEYOND COMMONSENSE AND PURPOSE 185  
        NOTE 186  
        REFERENCES 186  
     15. MU?A: Participative Museum Experiences and Adult Education 189  
        LIMINALITY, FRONTIER CONTROL AND THE MUSEUM INSTITUTION 190  
        A MUSEUM FOR WHOM? 192  
        PARTICIPATIVE MUSEUMS, VISUAL LITERACY AND BEYOND 193  
           The Art of Seeing 194  
        PEOPLE: DIASPORAS, IDENTITIES AND MEMORIES 195  
        BEYOND THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE 197  
        NOTE 198  
        REFERENCES 198  
        WEBSITES 199  
  SECTION 4: PERFORMING, INTERVENING, DECONSTRUCTING 200  
     16. CASTING LIGHT AND SHADOW: Reflections on a Non-Formal Adult Learning Course 201  
        INTRODUCTION 201  
        CONTEXTS AND DISCOURSES 202  
        COURSE DESIGN, AIMS AND QUESTIONS 204  
        AUTHORITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF DISCOMFORT 205  
        AUDIENCE, FAMILIARITY AND EXCLUSION 206  
           Learning Versus the Right Answer 207  
        INFORMAL SPACE AND ART AS PEDAGOGUE 208  
        DISCUSSION AND FINAL THOUGHTS 209  
        REFERENCES 210  
     17. THE OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF COMMUNITY DOCENT TRAINING AS ADULT LEARNING: Love and Labor at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 212  
        INTRODUCTION 212  
        WHAT WAS LOVE AND LABOUR? 214  
           The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 214  
           The Latino Union of Chicago and the Chicago Coalition of Household Workers 214  
           Unfinished Business: Twenty-First Century Home Economics 215  
           An Act of Love: Training Domestic Workers as Community Docents 216  
           Key Aspects of Love and Labor Tour Curriculum 217  
           Facilitating Love and Labor 217  
        BEST PRACTICES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS ADULT LEARNING 218  
           Be Aware of and Responsive to Power Dynamics and Social Disparities 218  
           Value Multiple Ways of Knowing 219  
           Be Attentive to the New Knowledge That Is Created 220  
           Practice Consistency 221  
        CONCLUSION AND FINAL COMMENTS 221  
        AUTHOR’S NOTE 222  
        REFERENCES 223  
     18. MUSEUM HACKING AS ADULT EDUCATION: Teachers Creating Disturbances and Embracing Dissonances 224  
        INTRODUCTION 224  
        ADULT EDUCATION AND CONSCIENTIZAÇÃO IN THE MUSEUM 225  
        TWO TERRITORIES 226  
           First Territory: The University of Victoria’s Summer Institute (SI) 226  
           Second Territory: The Royal British Columbia Museum 227  
        CREATING DISTUBANCES 228  
        EMBRACING DISSONANCES 230  
           An Intersection of Territories and Learners – A Common Ground for Critical Pedagogy 230  
        NOW AND THEN: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? 233  
           Teacher Educators’ Perspectives 233  
           Museum Educators’ Perspectives 233  
        CONCLUSIONS 234  
        REFERENCES 235  
     19. ADULT EDUCATION IN ART GALLERIES: Inhabiting Social Criticism and Change through Transformative Artistic Practices 237  
        INTRODUCTION 237  
           Contemporary Conceptions of Gallery Education 238  
        ONTOLOGIES OF TRANSFORMATION 240  
           The Person-Bound Ontology 240  
           The Practice-Based Ontology 241  
        ‘INHABITING’ SOCIAL CRITICISM AND CHANGE 242  
           Participative Art 243  
        ADULT EDUCATION IN ART GALLERIES 244  
        OPEN STUDIO 245  
        CONCLUSIONS 247  
        NOTE 248  
        REFERENCES 248  
     20. QR CODES: The Canary in the Coal Mine 250  
        INTRODUCTION 250  
        BACKGROUND 251  
        ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK 251  
        EXPERIENCE-DRIVEN LEARNING 252  
        MOTIVATED LEARNING 253  
        ACTIVE LEARNING 253  
        CONNECTED LEARNING 254  
        EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS 254  
        THE REALITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION 256  
        APPEARANCES 256  
        ANALYTICS 257  
        INCREASED DISPLAY SPACE 257  
        THE DISCONNECTS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY 258  
        MOVING FORWARD 260  
        REFERENCES 261  
  INDEX 263  

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