Propositions for Museum Education

Anita Sinner is a professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with emphasis on creative geographies in education. Boyd White is an associate professor (retired, August 2023) from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of philosophy and art education, with a focus on aesthetics and art criticism. Trish Osler is a PhD Candidate and researcher in Art Education and Concordia University Public Scholar. Her transdisciplinary practice aims to deepen understanding and awareness of arts-based approaches through embodied engagement with the environment and through artistic inquiry. Research interests draw upon the neuroscience of creativity and museum education.

Table of Contents 

Preface-ing 

Anita Sinner, Boyd White and Patricia Osler

The Promise of Museums: An Introduction 

Dónal O’Donoghue

I: Decolonizing Museums 

Displays of Inhumanity and the Inhumanity of Displays: Dialogue at the Junctures of Contemporary Art, Museum Collections and Hate Speech 

Raphael Vella and Shaun Grech

Museums as Intersectional Spaces for Artivist Solidarity 

Riikka Haapalainen, Anniina Suominen, Tiina Pusa, Jasmin Järvinen and Melanie Orenius

Decolonizing Benjamin Franklin House Through Comics: Reflections and Potential 

Kremena Dimitrova

Community Museums: Dialogical Spaces for Knowledge Creation, Mobilization and Income Generation for Marginalized Citizens in Brazil 

Bruno de Oliveira Jayme

“Becoming Ecological” for Nature Conservation: Insights from Two Museums in the Island State of lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia 

Abbey MacDonald, Annalise Rees, Jan Hogan and Benjamin J. Richardson

On the Possibility of Reconstructing a Contested Past Through Memory Museums in Turkey

Esra Yildiz

II: Museums of Purpose 

Disrupting Museum Education: Counter-Monument as a Pedagogical Space 

Susana Vargas-Mejía

Korundi Recreated: Participatory Experience Creates a Dialogue Between Past and Present 

Anniina Koivurova and Tatiana Kravtsov

Be the Nature: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Art Museum Pedagogy 

Timo Jokela, Maria Huhmarniemi and Tanja Mäkitalo

Interpretation Design at a Crossroads with Museum Education 

Richard Lachapelle

The Portuguese Contemporary Art Museum Today 

João Pedro Fróis

Museum-School Partnership: Synergizing Paradigmatic Engagements 

Attwell Mamvuto

Every School is a Museum: The Case of “Art for Learning Art” in Tegucigalpa, Honduras 

Joaquín Roldán, Andrea Rubio-Fernández and Ángela Moreno-Córdoba

III: Pedagogic Pivots 

Not Knowing: Creating Spaces for Co-curation 

Deborah Riding

Children’s Voices: Making Children’s Perspectives Visible in Gallery Spaces 

Lilly Blue and Sue Girak

The Art of Learning Art 

Paloma Palau-Pellicer, Maria Avariento-Adsuara and Paola Ruiz-Moltó

Out of the Museum into the Art 

Lise Sattrup and Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen

Thinking Ahead in Art Education.... 

Rolf Laven and Wolfgang Weinlich

Social Functions of Museum Education in Double Peripheries: Between Museology and Sociology 

Dominik Porczyński

The Role of the University Museum in Museum Education: The Example of the University of Tartu Museum 

Jaanika Anderson

IV: Sites of Sensorial Practice 

“You Have to Form Your Mediators. It’s a Series”: On Mediation, Encounters and Deleuze in the Art Museum 

Marie-France Berard

Learning Changes the Museum

Ricardo Marín-Viadel and Joaquín Roldán

Encounters on the Fringe of a Museum Tour – Trailing Behind as a Site of Affective Intensities

Keven Lee, Melissa Park and Marilyn Lajeunesse

The Educational Turn and A/r/tography: An Interplay Between Curating, Education and Artmaking

Jaime Mena and Guadalupe Pérez-Cuesta

Redescribing Territories: Inhabiting the Continuum of Art Production and Education 

Lene Crone Jensen and Hilde Østergaard

Senses and Sensibility: Finding the Balance in Sensory Museum Education

Emilie Sitzia

Towards a More Human-Centred Museum: A Narrative of an Imagined Visit to a Trauma-Aware Art Museum

Jackie Armstrong, Laura Evans, Stephen Legari, Ronna Tulgan Ostheimer, Andrew Palamara and Emily Wiskera



V: Virtual Museums 

The Art of Teaching in the Museum: A Proposition for Pedagogy of Dissensus 

Lisbet Skregelid

The Virtual of Abstract Art: Museum Educational Encounters with Concrete Abstraction 

Heidi Kukkonen

Projection-Based Augmented Reality for Visual Learning and Creation in Contemporary Art Museums 

Rocío Lara-Osuna and Xabier Molinet

Co-imagining the Museum of the Future: Meaningful Interactions Among Art(efacts), Visitors and Technology in Museum Spaces 

Priscilla Van Even, Annika Wolff, Stefanie Steinbeck, Anne Pässilä and Kevin Vanhaelewijn

Immersive Museum Technologies in Turkey and Future Projections in the Field 

Ceren Güneröz and Ayşem Yanar

A New Pedagogy of Museology? Innovative Changes in Museum Education for Cultural Heritage, Social Communication and Participation: A Case Study

Renata Pater



Biographies

Index