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Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change (International Issues in Adult Education, 20) by Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell, Kay Johnson (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change (International Issues in Adult Education, 20) about?

This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity, meaning making and interpretation, knowledge, authority, prescription, innovation, and creativity. The contributors are a combination of scholars, professors, graduate students, heritage and cultural adult educators, artists, curators and researchers from Canada, United States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Denmark, Portugal, Italy and Malta. Collectively, they challenge us to think about the dialectics of passivity and engagement, didactics and learning, gender neutrality and radicality, and neutrality and risk-taking amongst a collage of artworks and artefacts, poetry and installations, collections and exhibits, illusion and reality, curatorial practice and learning, argument and narrative, and struggle and possibility that define and shape modern day art and culture institutions. The chapters,

Who reads Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change (International Issues in Adult Education, 20)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell, Kay Johnson (eds.)
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9789463006873
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Higher & Further Education

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