Teaching in the Art Museum

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

Book Description
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].

Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum

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

Book Description
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.

Museum and Gallery Education

Author: Hazel Moffat
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742504080
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
The educational role of museums has become a key professional concern. This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. The contributed essays provide timely reviews of the key themes and case studies provide practical examples of the research. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.

Slow Looking

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

Book Description
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.

Experience and Art

Author: Nancy R. Smith
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807776017
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The authors skillfully combine a philosophical and pragmatic approach, exploring the cognitive processes behind children’s painting. To deepen children’s understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts involved in their work. Focusing on children from 1-1/2 to 11, the authors include in this second edition: a more detailed discussion about painting in the preschool; an expanded description of techniques effective in motivating five- and six-year-olds; and a stronger emphasis on painting as a more central, rather than occasional, activity in all classrooms. “Experience and Art is a lean, wise, and useful book . . . that speaks to those who teach children.” —From the Foreword by Elliot W. Eisner

Art Museum Education

Author: Olga Hubard
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137412874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
How 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.

Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums

Author: Scott G. Paris
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135645280
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
The goal of this book is to cull from the last NSF conference, the "best ideas about how children interact with objects & through that interaction acquire new understandings, attitudes, and feelings."

Interpreting the Art Museum

Author: Graeme Farnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910144664
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Oral history and art: sculpture forms part of a series of three books - the other two focus on paiting and phtooraphy - drawn from oral history transcripts in the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Containing the complete transcripts of unique interviews with ground breaking artists whose work has profoundly changed both our understanding of the world and the course of art itself.

Teaching Art in a Postmodern World

Author: Lee Emery
Publisher: Common Ground
ISBN: 1863355014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Collection of essays by Australian and English art educators discussing the transition from modernist to postmodernist art education. Teachers reflect on changes in their own teaching, and discuss how they introduce students to contemporary art and plan a curriculum. Includes photos and references. Simultaneously published in PDF and paperback formats. Editor is Associate Professor in arts education at the University of Melbourne and is an honorary life member of the Australian Institute for Art Education.

Museum of the Missing

Author: Simon Houpt
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402728297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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