Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader

✍ Scribed by Maria Xanthoudaki, Les Tickle, Veronica Sekules (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research. The research in each of the cases directly stems from educational practice in very particular contexts, indicating at once the variety and detail of practitioners' concerns and their common interests.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Things Change....Pages 15-32
Visitors’ Learning Experiences in Dutch Museums....Pages 33-48
Art Museum Education in Singapore....Pages 49-63
The Longing for Authentic Experiences....Pages 65-76
Come to the Edge....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Discovering Brera....Pages 93-104
Museums, Galleries and Art Education in Primary Schools....Pages 105-116
You’re Taking Us Where?....Pages 117-133
The Celebrity Performer and the Creative Facilitator: The Artist, The School and The Art Museum....Pages 135-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Significant Moments, Autobiography, and Personal Encounters with Art....Pages 153-165
The Gallery as a Site of Research....Pages 167-182
Interpreting Art Through Visual Narratives....Pages 183-195
Postmodernism and Art Museum Education....Pages 197-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
On the Brink of Irrelevance?....Pages 215-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-242

✦ Subjects

Cultural Heritage; Arts Education; Teaching and Teacher Education