The Educational Role of the Museum

by Hooper-Greenhill; Eilean

• ISBN13: 9780415198271
• ISBN10: 0415198275
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-04-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 Museumcovers 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xiv
Part I Communication theories
Education, communication and interpretation: towards a critical pedagogy in museums	3	(25)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Communication in theory and practice	28	(16)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Learning in art museums: strategies of interpretation	44	(9)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
The museum as a communicator: a semiotic analysis of the Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Gallery, Perth	53	(14)
Robert Hodge
Wilfred D'Souza
Part II Learning in museums
Museum learners as active postmodernists: contextualizing constructivism	67	(6)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
The constructivist museum	73	(7)
George E. Hein
Teaching yourself to teach with objects	80	(12)
John Hennigar Shuh
Improving worksheets	92	(7)
Gail Durbin
Open windows, open doors	99	(6)
Jessica Davis
Howard Gardner
Museum multicultural education for young learners	105	(5)
Joseph H. Suina
Children, teenagers and adults in museums: a developmental perspective	110	(8)
Nina Jensen
Museum-goers: life-styles and learning characteristics	118	(13)
Charles F. Gunther
Whose museum is it anyway? Museum education and the community	131	(6)
Jocelyn Dodd
Part III Developing effective exhibitions
Learning from learning theory in museums	137	(9)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Intrinsic motivation in museums: why does one want to learn?	146	(15)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Kim Hermanson
Cognitive psychology and interpretation: synthesis and application	161	(11)
Sam H. Ham
Collaboration: towards a more holistic design process	172	(19)
Hank Grasso
Howard Morrison
Spatial considerations
Communications Design Team, Royal Ontario Museum	178	(13)
The exhibition development process	191	(10)
David Dean
Combating redundancy: writing texts for exhibitions	201	(4)
Margareta Ekarv
Writing readable text: evaluation of the Ekarv method	205	(6)
Elizabeth Gilmore
Jennifer Sabine
How old is this text?	211	(4)
James Carter
Museum text as mediated message	215	(8)
Helen Coxall
Increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction	223	(18)
Betty Davidson
Candace Lee Heald
George E. Hein
Part IV Thinking about museum audiences
That those who run may read	241	(14)
Tony Bennett
Audiences: a curatorial dilemma	255	(14)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Cultural imagining among museum visitors	269	(9)
Sharon Macdonald
The disabling society	278	(10)
Rebecca McGinnis
Museums and cultural diversity in contemporary Britain	288	(7)
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
A beginner's guide to evaluation	295	(3)
Phil Bull
Monitoring and evaluation: the techniques	298	(4)
G. Binks
D. Uzzell
Small-scale evaluation	302	(3)
Tim Badman
Evaluation of museum programmes and exhibits	305	(7)
George E. Hein
Pupils' perceptions of museum education sessions	312	(8)
Marilyn Ingle
Collaborative evaluation studies between the University of Liverpool and national museum and galleries on Merseyside	320	(12)
Terry Russell
Sending them home alive	332	(5)
Anita Rui Olds
Index	337