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Rauch, Noah – Journal of Museum Education, 2018
The 9/11 Memorial Museum's docent program offers visitors artifact-based entry-points into a difficult, emotional history. The program's launch raised a host of questions, many centered on how to balance and convey strongly held, often traumatic, and sometimes conflicting experiences with a newly constructed institutional narrative. This article…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Museums, Historic Sites, Program Descriptions
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Sandsmark, Per Magnus Finnanger – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
The literary museum tradition in Norway is dominated by a historical-biographical and site-specific approach to museum education. The Centre for Norwegian Language and Litterature, with its three museum departements, has choosen a different approach. By narrowing literature to patterns, ideas, and emotions and addressing current cultural…
Descriptors: Museums, Norwegian, Language Variation, Literature
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Yamana, Jun – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Dealing with memories of catastrophes is undoubtedly important for education. Yet, how is such an education possible? On which theoretical basis can we describe it? In this article, I build a bridge between 'Memory Studies' and educational studies with regard to the topic of 'catastrophe' and thus present a provisional general theory of education,…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Memory, Educational Theories
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Olivo, Marisa; Smith, Reid Jewett – New Educator, 2021
This article examines how the MAT [Master of Arts in Teaching] program in Earth Science at the American Museum of Natural History was conceptualized and enacted within its institutional context. We argue that the program was completely consistent with the museum's public and democratic institutional logic, as reflected in funding, staffing,…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Earth Science, Museums, Science Teachers
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Robinson, Marvin; Zalut, Lauren – Journal of Museum Education, 2018
In an effort to humanize the issues surrounding mass incarceration, and to foster empathy in historic site visitors, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site launched a pilot tour program that hired formerly incarcerated people to give tours of the building. These 15-minute tours allowed visitors to hear personal stories of incarceration alongside…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Historic Sites, Museums, Institutionalized Persons
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Thogersen, Jane; Simpson, Andrew; Hammond, Gina; Janiszewski, Leonard; Guerry, Eve – Education for Information, 2018
This case study describes a project designed by university museum curators, managers and educators working in collaboration with curriculum designers to elicit new uses for university museum collection objects in the delivery of tertiary, secondary and primary education programs. It involves an object-based learning community of practice…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Museums, Universities, Program Descriptions
Bottrel Tostes, Vera Lucia – Education Canada, 2011
Brazil's National History Museum in Rio de Janeiro is reaching out to the most marginalized young people and establishing itself as an important partner in offering them alternatives to a life of crime and addiction. The target population for its programs includes disenfranchised children and young people aged 10 to 20--those living in the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Young Adults, Museums, Social Change
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Challenger, Melanie – Intercultural Education, 2007
This article describes the "Stolen Voices" project which developed through detailed discussions with local education authorities and teachers in boroughs across London, UK. These educators and specialists were eloquent in their desire for projects that supplement the curriculum and classroom work on human rights and global citizenship,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Citizenship, Learning Experience, Museums