In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier a a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an...
In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier a a zone where learning is created...
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities.
The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by...
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and ...
