Full Description
Aimed at museum educators, Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today seeks to marry museum and multicultural education theories. It reveals how the union of these theories yields more equitable educational practices and guides museum educators to address misrepresentation, exclusivity, accessibility, and educational inequality.
This contemporary text is directive; it encourages museum educators to consider the critical multicultural education theoretical framework in their day-to-day functions in order to illuminate and combat shortcomings at the crux of museum education:
Museum Educators as Change AgentsInclusion versus ExclusionCollaboration with Diverse AudiencesResponsive Pedagogy
This book adopts a broad definition of multiculturalism, which names not only race and ethnicity as concerns, but also gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability, age, and class. While focusing on these various facets of identity, the authors demonstrate how museums are social systems that should offer comprehensive, diverse educational experiences not only through exhibitions but through other educational activities. The authors pull from their own research and practical experiences which exemplify how museums have been and can be attentive to these areas of identity.
Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today is hopeful and inspiring, as it identifies and commends the positive and effective practices that some museum educators have enacted in an effort to be inclusive. Museum educators are at the front-line interacting with the public on a daily basis. Thus, these educators can be the real vanguard of change, modeling critical multicultural behavior and practices.
Contents
List of Tables
Introduction and Context
Joni Boyd Acuff and Laura Evans
Section 1: Museum Educators as Change Agents
Chapter 1: "Stuck" is where you need to pay attention: Some barriers to creating truly inclusive art museums
Marianna Adams and Judy Koke
Chapter 2: Stimulating change through story-telling: Art museum educators of color share their lived experiences with multicultural issues
Natasha Reid
Chapter 3: Excellence and equity?: A reflection on the diversification of museums
Wendy Ng and Syrus Marcus Ware
Chapter 4: Unheard: Voices of women of color in the museum
Flavia Zuñiga-West
Section 2: Inclusion versus Exclusion
Chapter 5: Collaborating with communities: New conceptualizations of hybridized museum practice
Traci Quinn and Marianna Pegno
Chapter 6: Multiculturalism and the Supported Interpretation (SI) Model: Embracing cultural diversity through inclusive art exhibitions
Pat Villeneuve and Alicia Viera
Chapter 7: Enabling access at the Meadows Museum: An ongoing
