330 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
330 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
330 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place?
Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing... Read more
1. Introduction to the main theories and themes of Reculturing Museums; 2. Why do we need theories?; 3. Who will go to museums?; 4. Who will pay for museums?; 5. Whose story is it?; 6. Who owns the artifact?; 7. Where Is the Learning, and Who Gets to Learn?; 8. What do we mean by equitable teaching in museums?; 9. How do we reculture an institution while old museums are still in place?
Biography
Doris B. Ash is Professor Emerita in science education in the education department at the University of California Santa Cruz.
