The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education

List of contributors

SECTION ONE : Setting the context: museum and heritage education – a force for change

1.Defending Museum Education

Milene Chiovatto

2.The Rise of a Profession - Museum Education: From Enlightenment to Empowerment

Mette Boritz

3. Philosophical Perspectives on the Educational Dimensions of Museums

Victoria S. Harrison and Philip Tonner

4. Who Pays the Piper and Who Calls the Tune?

Henrik Zipsane

5. Museums as Pillars of the Establishment or Agents of Change: Smithsonian initiatives

Michelle Delaney and Elizabeth Kirby

6.Decolonisation: what does it mean for museum education?

Sabila Duhita Drijono and Agi Ginanjar

7.Empowering Museum Educators: achieving equity, inclusion, and professional recognition

Wencke Maderbacher

SECTION TWO: Theory and experience in museum education: pedagogies in practice

8. Pedestals or Portals? An exploration of representations of museums and museum learning in and through children’s literature.

Jennifer Farrar and Maggie McColl

9. Into the History in Open-Air Museums

Thomas Bloch Ravn

10. Connecting Children to Art and Cultural Heritage

Annemies Broekgaarden and Margherita Sani

11. Time and Place: sites of memory and the sense of history

Alexander Cook

12. Embracing the Untouchable: strategies for engaging learners with intangible heritage

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

13. Uncovering the Authentic Unknown: the place of mystery in museum education –archaeological museums

Elena Plosnita

14. Speaking Visual – the Importance of Visual Literacy in Art Museum Education

Brian P. Kennedy

15. Making sense of Scotland - Creative use of Scotland’s Historic Environment as a National Resource to Support Learning and Inclusion

Craig Fletcher

16. Light after Loss: the role of museum and heritage education in guiding grief and nurturing empathy

Katya Provornaya

SECTION THREE: A virtuous circle: the role of research in museum and heritage education

17. Science Centres and Museums: public laboratories for studying free-choice/informal science learning.

Professor Lynn D. Dierking

18. Evidence-based Museum Education

Eric A. Jensen

19. Staging Climate: art, nature, culture in the production of knowledge in the museum

Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen

20. Facilitating Object-based Learning Through Digital Touch Replicas when Collections are Untouchable

Sam Beath and Jennifer Anné

21. Archival Institutions as Laboritaries for Change

Sara Grut

22. Engagement and Education at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society: a praxis for sustainability

Kaye Hall and Natalie McGuire

23. Changing Minds: how intergroup contact through participatory arts can improve dementia care

Wan Jie Tan, Weiting Jiang, Xavier Lim, Hwan Jing Koh and Donald Yeo

SECTION 4: Open doors, open minds: nurturing museum accessibility and inclusivity for a more democratic model

24.  Engaging Everyone –Participation as a Means and an End within Museum Education and Practice

Karl B. Murr

25. Young adults (age 18-30) as a specific target group within cultural institutions – practice considerations for curators of education

Gundy van Dijk

26. Reaching out: changing the visitor social dynamic

Francois Mairesse

27 Policies and Practices of Museum Education and Social Inclusion - the Case of Egyptian Museums

Nevine Nizar Zakaria

28. Memorial sites as catalysts for healing and hope: confronting and interpreting difficult and traumatic history for formal learning purposes

Richard Freedman

29. Here and Queer: an evolving Practice of LGBTQ+ Heritage Engagement in the UK

Rachael E. Lennon

30. Getting to know you – facilitating visitor identity and relatability in Mexican museums.

Ivonne Lonna

SECTION FIVE: Future-proofing: how museum education can take a more forward-looking stance.

31. Museum Education, Activist Pedagogies, and Forced Migration: or, how can museum education change the world?

 Alexandra Bounia and Niki Nikonanou

32. Culture and Connectivity: how digital is shaping the future of museum education (with a note of caution)

Mike Cosgrave

33. Building Nuance: using museum education to move away from black-and-white thinking in India

Tejshvi Jain, Bhanu Ghalot, Tiggy Allen

34. Unlocking Industrial Heritage Meanings and Legacies for the Post-industrial Generations

Massimo Negri

35. Telling Another Tale: feminist pedagogical strategies toward a sense of agency

Darlene E. Clover

36. Racial Hauntings: enfigurement in the modern South African museum

Crain Soudien

37. Shaping a Reinvigorated Cultural Landscape: exploring museum education practices and perspectives in the Middle East .

Margaret McColl and Hsiao Chiang Wang

38. What Next? museum and heritage education, and sustainable development

Henry McGhie

Index

Biography

Maggie McColl is Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she has taught Arts Education for over 20 years.

Pete Brown is an independent Museums and Heritage Consultant, with a MA in Interpretive Studies from the University of Leicester.

Michelle Delaney is Assistant Director for History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, leading the museum scholarship division.

Karl Borromäus Murr is Director of the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg and Chairman of the European Museum Academy.

Henrik Zipsane is Director of the European Museum Academy and an expert in heritage education and adult education at the Swedish Council for Higher Education and the European Commission.