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Transforming Practice: Selections from the Journal of Museum Education, 1992-1999
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Edited by Joanne S. Hirsch and Lois H. Silverman, ISBN 1-880437-01-05, 2000
A renewed sense of social responsibility to communities and cultures is permeating museums. As museum professionals expand their strategies for engaging the public, they are simultaneously building and strengthening the theoretical underpinnings of their practice. In these ways, museum practice is transforming both our world and the world of museums.
Transforming Practice, a comprehensive collection of articles from Museum Education Roundtable's Journal of Museum Education, presents a rich and exemplary selection of writing in one accessible resource. Each of the book's four sections includes an introductory essay; "sparks" excerpted from each article that alone might ignite debate; "reflections" by some of the authors looking back on their work; and discussion questions. Four case studies in the final section highlight the fascinating interplay among change, response, and understanding. Transforming Practice is a professional development tool-a resource for museum training programs, small museums, staffs, practitioner groups, and friends to inspire conversation, critique, debate, and your own writing. As Stephen E. Weil writes in his foreword, this book reveals "the richness of ideas, the dedication to excellence, and the extraordinary depth and variety of talents to be found among this generation of museum educators."
Contents
- Foreword -- Stephen E. Weil
Introduction -- Lois H. Silverman and Joanne S. Hirsch
- Part 1: Perspectives on Change
Introduction: Illuminating the Paradox of the Museum -- Carol B. Stapp
Philosophies and perspectives documenting the realities of the world, of accountability, and of conscience effecting change in museums.
- Part 2: Responses in Practice
Introduction: Addressing External Change with an Eye to Internal
Transformation: Strategy and Practice
Gretchen M. Jennings
Models of practice responding to and contributing to change:
strategies and approaches to work, within and without the museum;
compelling programs and products.
- Part 3: Understanding: Theory, Research, and Evaluation
Introduction: Paradigms Shifted: Comprehending the meaning from Without -- Kenneth Yellis
Examples of theory, research, and evaluation, which help to explain what works and what doesn't work, how, and why.
- Part 4: Linkages: Building Knowledge
Introduction: Transforming Practice through Change, Response, and Understanding -- Joanne S. Hirsch and Lois H. Silverman
The importance of linking perspectives on change, responses in practice, and understanding in order to build a body of knowledge and transform practice.
348 pp., paper, 2000
ISBN 1-880437-01-05
$30 (MER members)
$35 (nonmembers)
Patterns in Practice: Selections from the Journal of Museum Education
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Edited by Susan K. Nichols, ISBN 1-880437-00-7
This comprehensive anthology features 47 selected articles from the Journal of Museum Education plus ten new introductory essays by leaders in museum education and related fields. The articles and essays explore some of the fundamental issues concerning the role of education in museums today, from serving diverse communities to motivating visitors in an informal learning setting.The book is divided into five sections which 1) trace the evolution of the museum education profession; 2) explore the field's theoretical base; 3) consider methods of research used; 4) provide examples of how theory is translated into practice; and 5) summarize issued relating to professional development.
Patterns in Practice also includes an author and subject index.
First edition published in 1992 by Museum Education Roundtable. Washington, DC.
Contents
- Preface -- Susan K. Nichols
- Section 1: Coming of Age
Introductions
The Museum's Role in a Multicultural Society -- Claudine K. Brown
Revolution of the Field: Historical Context -- Barbara Franco
Afro-American Museums: A Future Full of Promise -- Amina J. Dickerson
The Growth of a Program: From Childhood through Adolescence -- Alberta Sebolt George
On Interpretation and Historic Sites -- Susan B. Schell
To Realize Our Museums' Full Potential -- Joan C. Madden
Educators Respond to Museum for a New Century
Some Limitations -- Susan Stitt
Implications for Museum Educators --Danielle Rice
Key Issues -- Anna Slafer
Internal Growth -- Carol B. Stapp
The Uncertain Profession: Perceptions and Directions
Introduction -- Carol B. Stapp
A Questionable Attitudinal Survey -- Lonn Taylor
Strength in Ambiguity -- Judith White
Our Work Is Good for People -- Danielle Rice
Key Issues -- Judith Landau
Eisner and Dobbs' Generalizations
Eisner and Dobbs's Recommendations
Professional Standards for Museum Educators
American Association of Museums Standing Professional Committee on Education
Preface -- Patterson B. Williams
MER at Twenty: Some Observations on Museum Education -- Kenneth Starr
Museums and the Future of Education -- Joel N. Bloom and Ann Mintz
"Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums"
American Association of Museums Task Force on Museum Education
Introduction -- Bonnie Pitman
"Excellence and Equity:" Excerpts from the Report The Diverse Potential of Education in Museums -- James Affolter
Education: A Responsibility or the Responsibility? -- Nina Archabal
Museum Education and Ideals -- Edmund Barry Gaither
The Importance of "And" -- Elaine Heumann Gurian
Museum Literacy and "Visitor Literacy" -- Paul G. Heltne
Museums in Cultural and Temporal Context -- Roger Mandle
Museums' Social Contract -- Scott T. Swank
- Section 2: Reflecting on Things and Theory
Introductions
Looking -- John Fines
Were Those Indians Hit by Cars? -- Robert Sullivan
Object Knowledge: Every Museum Visitor an Interpreter -- Thomas J. Schlereth
Defining Museum Literacy -- Carol B. Stapp
Afterword
Object Contemplation: Theory into Practice -- Patterson B. Williams
Responses to Schlereth, Stapp, and Williams
From What to Why -- Joan C. Madden
Unhanding the Visitor -- Ken Yellis
Interpreting History through Objects -- Barbara G. Carson
The Missing Link: The Role of Orientation in Enriching the Museum Experience -- Robert L. Wolf
Afterword -- Barbara L. Wolf
Vision and Culture: The Role of Museums in Visual Literacy -- Danielle Rice
E. D. Hirsch's Art Terms in Cultural Literacy
Museums and KnowledgeS The Responsibility to Open Minds -- Lisa Roberts
Naive Notions and the Design of Science Museum Exhibits -- Minda Borun
Passionate and Purposeful: Adult Learning Communities -- Luke Baldwin, Sharlene Cochrane, Constance Counts, Joan Dolamore, Martha McKenna, and Barbara Vacarr
Museum Visitors and the Development of Understanding -- Eleanor Duckworth
Sending Them Home Alive -- Anita Rui Olds
Museum Multicultural Education for Young Learners -- Joseph H. Suina
- Section 3: Considering the Museum Experience
Introductions
New Directions for Research -- Judy Diamond
Evaluating Visitors' Conversations with Exhibits -- Mark St. John
Back to the Future: A Call for Coordinated Research Programs in Museums -- Mary Ellen Munley
Afterword
Visitor Participation in Formative Exhibit Evaluation -- Patricia A. McNamara
Do Museums Have "Curriculum?" -- Valorie Beer
The Family Museum Experience: Implications from Research -- Lynn D. Dierking
The Family Museum Experience: A Review of the Literature -- Marcia Brumit Kropf
Beyond "Aha!": Motivating Museum Visitors -- Marlene Chambers
Understanding Demographic Data on Zoo Visitors -- Barbara A. Birney and Carolyn Heinrich
- Section 4: Putting Plans into Practice
Introductions
Ideas on Informal Learning and Teaching -- Susan M. Mayer
Inviting the Public to Learn in Art Museums -- Vasundhara Prabhu
A Personal Viewpoint -- Zora Felton
Decentralizing Interpretation: Developing Museum Education Materials with and for Schools -- Peter S. O'Connell
Education Programs for Older Adults -- Elizabeth M. Sharpe
Afterword
Case Studies: Museum Programs for Older Adults
Learning about Reptiles and Amphibians: A Family Experience -- Judith White, Dale Marcellini, and Sharon Barry
Student Interpreters: Narrowing the Gap between Visitor and Exhibit -- Karen A. Hensel with Merryl Kafka
The University Gallery as a Field Setting for Teacher Education -- Marian L. Martinello and Mauricio Gonzalez
Master Teaching in an Art Museum -- Philip Yenawine
Addressing Community Needs: The Pontiac Art Center -- Ann Treadwell
Afterword
Role-Playing in Children's Museum -- Jim La Villa-Havelin
Theater Techniques in an Aquarium or a Natural History Museum -- Patricia Rutowski
Current Approaches to Interpretation in Zoos -- Edited by Janet S. Jackson-Gould
Designed to Be Interpreted -- Sharon Kramer and John Gwynne
An Integrative Process for Exhibit Design -- Jon Charles Coe
High-Tech Interactive Exhibits -- Howard Litwak
Low-Tech Interactive Exhibits -- James F. Peterson
The Use of Humor in Zoological Interpretation -- Linda Taylor
Entertainment and Education: Antonyms or Allies? -- Catherine Tompson
Theater in a Zoo? -- Rosemery Harms
- Section 5: Thinking about Ourselves and Our Field
Introductions
On Professional Knowing -- Teresa K. LaMaster
Your Private Temple: Fighting Change -- Richard Mühlberger
Getting It Down on Paper -- Ken Yellis
Education for Excellent Interpretation -- Robert C. Birney
Introduction -- William Tramposch
Concept, Method, and Professional Exchange -- Candace T. Matelic
Training for Museum Education Professionals -- Nina Jensen and Mary Ellen Munley
Afterword -- Nina Jensen
Preparation for Empowerment -- Diane Brigham
The Whole Audience Catalogue
Introduction -- George E. Hein
Questioning Premises -- Carol B. Stapp
Touchstones -- Dennis O'Toole
Teaching and Learning and Being -- Mary Worthington
A Visitor's View -- Arminta Neal
Museum Education Anthology: Perspectives on Informal Learning, a Decade of Roundtable Reports, 1973-1983
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Edited by by Susan K. Nichols, Mary Alexander, and Ken Yellis. No ISBN Number, 1984.
With the publication of this anthology, MER celebrated its first decade of Roundtable Reports, now published as the Journal of Museum Education. In this volume are articles and essays on teaching strategies, introspective glances at the museum education field, reports of program successes and near successes, evaluative studies, and reviews of exhibitions and literature related to object-based learning. The volume includes a complete index of Roundtable Reports.
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