Most museum education research has focused on examining collaborative partnerships between artists and schoolteachers or artists and museum educators, in schools or art museums. This research investigates the collaborative partnership among artists, museum educators, and schoolteachers within the context of art museum education. Using the Double…

Background: In this paper, we add to the scant literature base on learning from failures with a particular focus on understanding educators' shifting mindset in making-centred learning environments. Aims: The aim of Study 1 was to explore educators' beliefs about failure for learning and instructional practices within their local making-centred…

In this study I examine Jean-Luc Nancy's interpretation of the biblical scene of Noli me tangere (Touch me not), focusing on the "Do Not Touch" sign in museums. Nancy analyses the scene where Jesus prohibits Mary Magdalene from touching him after the resurrection. I attempt to explore its correlation with the experiential aspect of…

At the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a new museum being built in South Los Angeles, members of the Learning and Engagement and Social Impact divisions lead neighborhood orientations for staff from across the museum. During orientations, staff visit four neighborhoods directly surrounding the Exposition Park neighborhood, where the museum will…

Theoretically framed by public pedagogy, the study explores teachers' use of public sites for undocumented migrant children. The findings demonstrate that teachers utilized various non-school, informal, and public spaces including libraries/museums, open marketplaces, and public parks/squares as powerful platforms to foster children's learning,…

The authors, a museum educator and a psychiatrist, present a case study of their collaborative work to develop museum experiences for trauma survivors participating in an outpatient treatment program that uses Cognitive Processing Therapy. The thesis behind the program, now in its eighth year, was that an art museum experience could be designed to…

There are important connections between child-centered approaches, wellness, and the activist role that art museum educators can play in their institutions and the wider community. While there are practical challenges to achieving these goals within a small institution, the museum educator's positionality in such an institution can allow for…

Museum educators are well versed in employing multiple techniques for engaging museum visitors. Many use these skills and approaches to support marginalized and vulnerable populations, such as families with an incarcerated adult, families with food insecurity, or unhoused families. Determining how to carry out these beneficial intentions, however,…

This paper explores the development of Civic Wellness programs at the Art Institute of Chicago, with an emphasis on how Civic Wellness teaching, partnerships, and strategy are informed by social justice-oriented values. These include equity practice, antiracism, strength in community, and democratic justice-oriented andragogy. The paper lays out…

This book takes a look at the affordances of engaging second/foreign language students in educational projects that bridge the gap between the classroom and the museum. Studies on language learning and teaching beyond the classroom have shown that students learn in different settings and through different types of activities and that their…