Full Description
In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society. The author reveals the radical potential for museums to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth.
Contents
Preface, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill; Introduction: The Spatial Politics of the Museum Frontiers; Chapter 1 Race: Repositioning and Revaluing Cultural Heritage; Chapter 2 Space: The Museum and the New Spatial Politics of the Frontiers; Including New Voices and Forms of Practice; Chapter 3 Power: Inserting New Visibilities in the Museum Margins; Chapter 4 Control: Shifting Relationships in the Whole Museum; Critical Collaborative Museum Pedagogy; Chapter 5 Identity: Motivation and Self-esteem; Chapter 6 Towards a New Museum Pedagogy: Learning, Teaching and Impact; conclusion Conclusion: Pedagogy in Museums;
