Science Museums in Transition : Unheard Voices (Museums in Focus)

McLaughlin, Hooley (EDT)/ Diamond, Judy (EDT)

Routledge（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 94 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367787752
• DDC分類 507.4

Full Description

Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures to the diversity of ideas, people, and cultures that speak to modern science.

This collection contains individual expressions by museum insiders addressing a range of particular perspectives - Native American, African American, Latinx, Islamic, Israeli, Danish, white North American. These reflections provide guidance to the museum community as to how their institutions can become more thoughtful, more welcoming to diverse audiences, and more cognizant of the ways that different people incorporate science into their daily lives. As a whole, the book emphasizes the need for museums to engage in dialogue with their visitors - not merely to present them with information - and to offer the opportunities to share experiences, exchange perspectives, and thereby advance science learning through a dynamic and collective process.

Science Museums in Transition is intended to further discussion on how museums address the political and social ramifications of science and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum studies, science, anthropology, education and history. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals around the globe.

Contents

Contributor Biographies


Inclusion and Relevance in Natural History Museums


Re-Exhibiting Africa at the Penn Museum: An Interview with Penn Museum Curator Tukufu Zuberi


Science, Islam and Critical Thinking: Lessons for Museums


Museum Mantras, Teachings from Indian Country: Posterity is Now; Failure is an Option, and Repatriation is a Foundation for Research


Ensuring Our People Have a Place that Feels Like Home


Reflections on Empowering Youth in Science Museums


Promoting Responsible Citizenship in Science Museums through Student Curated Exhibits


Conflicts Between Traditional Knowledge Systems And Western Science: Do We Need To Revise Our Thinking in Order to Engage Youth from All Heritages?




Navigating Worldviews in Conversation with David Begay and Nancy Maryboy


Youth and the Challenge to Define the Museum of the Future