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Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries

Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change

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Editors:
  1. Darlene E. Clover

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  2. Kathy Sanford

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  3. Lorraine Bell

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  4. Kay Johnson

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education (ADUL)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Activism, Subversion and Radical Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Shut Up and Be Quiet!

      • Robin S. Grenier, Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
      Pages 3-14

    3. St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

      • Clare Gray
      Pages 15-25

    4. Adult Education and Radical Museology

      • Jean Barr
      Pages 27-37

    5. Art and Commitment: Galleries without Walls

      • Paul Stewart
      Pages 39-51

    6. The Victoria and Albert Museum

      • Avner Segall, Brenda Trofanenko
      Pages 53-63

  3. Women in Clothes: (Re)Gendering Practices and Pedagogies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Knowing Their Place

      • Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford
      Pages 67-78

    3. Daughters of Joy?

      • Micki Voelkel, Shelli Henehan
      Pages 79-89

    4. Re-Educating the Educators

      • Rose M. Lewis, Rachel Clarke
      Pages 91-102

    5. Contemporary Art as Pedagogical Challenge

      • Emília Ferreira
      Pages 103-113

    6. Performing and Activating

      • Jennifer Van de Pol
      Pages 115-125

  4. Re-Imagining, Representing, Remaking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Decolonising Museum Pedagogies

      • Kay Johnson
      Pages 129-140

    3. Formally Informal

      • Lisa R. Merriweather, Heather Coffey, Paul G. Fitchett
      Pages 141-152

    4. Exhibiting Dark Heritage

      • Jennifer Thivierge
      Pages 153-163

    5. From Narration to Poïesis

      • Laura Formenti, Alessia Vitale
      Pages 165-176

    6. Muża

      • Sandro Debono
      Pages 177-187

  5. Performing, Intervening, Deconstructing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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About this book

This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity, meaning making and interpretation, knowledge, authority, prescription, innovation, and creativity. The contributors are a combination of scholars, professors, graduate students, heritage and cultural adult educators, artists, curators and researchers from Canada, United States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Denmark, Portugal, Italy and Malta. Collectively, they challenge us to think about the dialectics of passivity and engagement, didactics and learning, gender neutrality and radicality, and neutrality and risk-taking amongst a collage of artworks and artefacts, poetry andinstallations, collections and exhibits, illusion and reality, curatorial practice and learning, argument and narrative, and struggle and possibility that define and shape modern day art and culture institutions. The chapters, set amongst the discursive politics of neoliberalism and patriarchy, racism and religious intolerance, institutional neutrality and tradition, capitalism and neo-colonialism, ecological devastation and social injustice, take up the spirit and ideals of the radical and feminist traditions of adult education and their emphases on cultural participation and knowledge democracy, agency and empowerment, justice and equity, intellectual growth and transformation, critical social and self reflection, activism and risk-taking, and a fundamental belief in the power of art, dialogue, reflection, ideological and social critique and imaginative learning.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Victoria, Canada

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries

  • Book Subtitle: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change

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

  • Series Title: International Issues in Adult Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-687-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-687-3Published: 04 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 264

  • Topics: Education, general

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