Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum

Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum

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  • Author: Elliot Kai-Kee
  • Publisher: Getty Publications
  • ISBN: 160606617X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

This groundbreaking book explores why and how to encourage physical and sensory engagement with works of art. An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning Teaching in the Art Museum (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to help educators—from teachers and docents to curators and parents—create meaningful interpretive activities for children and adults. Written by a team of veteran museum educators, Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum offers diverse perspectives on embodiment, emotions, empathy, and mindfulness to inspire imaginative, spontaneous interactions that are firmly grounded in history and theory. The authors begin by surveying the emergence of activity-based teaching in the 1960s and 1970s and move on to articulate a theory of play as the cornerstone of their innovative methodology. The volume is replete with sidebars describing activities facilitated with museum visitors of all ages.


Teaching in the Art Museum

Teaching in the Art Museum

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  • Author: Rika Burnham
  • Publisher: Getty Publications
  • ISBN: 1606060589
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

Teaching in the Art Museum investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education. In this book Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee define and articulate a new approach to gallery teaching, one that offers groups of visitors deep and meaningful experiences of interpreting art works through a process of intense, sustained looking and thoughtfully facilitated dialogue.--[book cover].


Visual Thinking Strategies

Visual Thinking Strategies

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  • Author: Philip Yenawine
  • Publisher: Harvard Education Press
  • ISBN: 1612506119
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

"What’s going on in this picture?" With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.


Museum Gallery Activities

Museum Gallery Activities

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  • Author: Sharon Vatsky
  • Publisher: American Alliance of Museums
  • ISBN: 9781538108642
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

This handbook provides a compendium of successful gallery activities to engage the entire tour group in the interpretive process.


Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education

Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education

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  • Author: Bobick, Bryna
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1799874273
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 350

As art museum educators become more involved in curatorial decisions and creating opportunities for community voices to be represented in the galleries of the museum, museum education is shifting from responding to works of art to developing authentic opportunities for engagement with their communities. Current research focuses on museum education experiences and the wide-reaching benefits of including these experiences into art education courses. As more universities add art museum education to their curricula, there is a need for a text to support the topic and offer examples of real-world museum education experiences. Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education deepens knowledge on museum and art education and civic engagement and bridges the gap from theory to practice. The chapters focus on various sectors of this research, including diversity and inclusion in museum experiences, engaging communities through new techniques, and museum and university partnerships. As such, it includes coverage on timely topics that include programs and audience engagement with the LGBTQ+, refugee, disability, and senior communities; socially responsive museum pedagogy; and the use of student workers. This book is ideal for museum educators, museum directors, curators, professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in updated knowledge and research in art education, curriculum development, and civic engagement.


The Art Museum as Educator

The Art Museum as Educator

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  • Author: Council on Museums and Education in the Visual Arts
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520032484
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 856


Creating Meaningful Museum Experiences for K–12 Audiences

Creating Meaningful Museum Experiences for K–12 Audiences

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  • Author: Tara Young
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1538146800
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 327

This timely book provides a critical look at one of the staples of museum education programming: the “field trip” for school groups. The K–12 audience is of major importance to museums: not only does reaching students relate directly to the educational mission of museums, but also our institutions rely on the revenue generated by school groups.


Time and Presence in Art

Time and Presence in Art

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  • Author: Armin Bergmeier
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 311072216X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections between medieval artworks' varied presences and their ever-shifting places in time. The volume begins with reflections on the study of temporality and presence in medieval and early modern art history. A second section presents case studies delving into the different ways medieval artworks once created and transformed their original viewers' experience of the present. These range from late antique Constantinople, early Islamic Jerusalem and medieval Italy, to early modern Venice and the Low Countries. A final section explores how medieval artworks remain powerful and relevant today. This section includes case studies on reconstructing presence in medieval art through embodied experience of pilgrimage, art historical research and museum education. In doing so, the volume provides a first dialog between museum educators and art historians on the presence of medieval artifacts. It includes contributions by Hans Belting, Keith Moxey, Rika Burnham and others.


Slow Looking

Slow Looking

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  • Author: Shari Tishman
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315283794
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 166

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioral practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.


Progressive Museum Practice

Progressive Museum Practice

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  • Author: George E Hein
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315421844
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Preeminent museum education theorist George E. Hein explores the work, philosophy, and impact of educational reformer John Dewey and his importance for museums. Hein traces current practice in museum education to Dewey's early 20th-century ideas about education, democracy, and progress toward improving society, and in so doing provides a rare history of museum education as a profession. Giving special attention to the progressive individuals and institutions who followed Dewey in developing the foundations for the experiential learning that is considered best practice today, Hein demonstrates a parallel between contemporary theories about education and socio-political progress and, specifically, the significance of museums for sustaining and advancing a democratic society.