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Book SynopsisHow can museum educators facilitate experiences with artworks that are meaningful to viewers? How might educators negotiate divergences between visitors' perspectives and official information? What is the place of emotions and bodily sensations in art viewing? This book explores these and other questions key to generative gallery teaching.
Trade Review“The book Art Museum Education: Facilitating Gallery Experiences … offers up-to-date reflections on art museum and gallery teaching. … In writing about the original ideas and practices that are theoretically supported, innovative, and feasible approach to art museum education in the field of museum studies make a pertinent and relevant contribution. Hubard invites all museum researchers and educators to reflect on and discuss the experiences of art museum visitors, turning such experiences into useful tools.” (João Pedro Fróis, The Museum Journal, Vol. 59 (4), October, 2016)
Table of ContentsIntroduction. What Is Gallery Teaching? PART I: GROUP DIALOGUE 1. Three Kinds of Dialogue about Art 2. The Structure of Open Dialogue 3. Interrogating the Thematic Approach 4. What Counts as a Theme in Art Museum Education? 5. Facilitating Interpretive Dialogues: Some Concrete Suggestions PART II: NEGOTIATING CULTURAL CONTEXTS 6. Negotiating Personal and Cultural Meanings in the Museum 7. Productive Information: Making Facts Matter PART III: EMBODIMENT AND MEANING MAKING Introduction to Part III: Embodied Ways of Knowing 8. How Does This Artwork Make You Feel? Considering the Role of Emotions 9. Complete Engagement: Embodied Response and Multimodal Facilitation 10. Originals and Their Reproductions
