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What You Leave Behind: Museum Education, Disability, and the Holocaust
Educators must be conscious of how misinformation and ableism shape presentations of disability histories. The atrocities of the Holocaust and related instances of prejudice and persecution under the Nazi regime are vital topics within education about disability history. However, the emotive and horrific nature of the subject matter may encourage educators to make generalizations about disability history. Are sensitive histories … Read More
Context and Transformation: Making Visible the Work of the Museum Education Roundtable
The Journal of Museum Education (JME) celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, culminating in the final issue of 2023, Relational. The theme of this issue was the various ways museum educators share, support, and sustain professional praxes and the role the JME plays in making visible the often invisible labor of practitioners. Now, at the start of our 51st year of publishing on … Read More
Interview with Wolfgang Schmutz, Guest Editor of JME 49.1: Transforming Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust
In his introduction to JME 49.1: Transforming Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust, guest editor Wolfgang Schmutz gives a thoughtful and heartfelt reaction to how he believes readers might consider the articles in this issue situated within the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel (and in many parts of the world) today. I encourage readers to spend time with Wolfgang’s … Read More
An Annotated Bibliography: There are Different Suns
Editor’s Note: In Orlando Serrano Jr’s article, There are Different Suns, he shares animating ideas and frameworks shaping the work of making the new Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The article and Serrano’s lineage of thought are broad and, importantly, shaped by many sources beyond museum or education literature alone. We asked him … Read More
Annual Letter from the President
This letter has given me the opportunity to pause and reflect on what seminal Black feminist educator, author, and activist bell hooks described as “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” (hooks, 2004, 17), the interlocking systems of oppression that are exposed most clearly during historical and contemporary events involving settler colonialism, genocide, and resource extraction. When our consciousness is raised to these … Read More
MAKE AN IMPACT ON GIVING TUESDAY WITH MER!
We invite you to support the Museum Education Roundtable on Giving Tuesday! Your involvement can make a meaningful impact on the field of museum education, and there are three primary ways you can contribute. Make a Donation Donations to MER support the publication of the Journal of Museum Education (JME) and continued research in the field, encourages advocacy and leadership, … Read More
A Conversation About “In The Unrest of Implication: Museum Education Methods in Atmospheres of Scandalization
Editors Note: Part of our commitment to making the Journal of Museum Education accessible is to provide free access to one article per issue, supported by our partnership with our publisher, Taylor & Francis. For the JME issue 48.3, It’s All Fake, Honestly!, our board selected the article “In the Unrest of Implication: Museum Education Methods in the Atmospheres of … Read More
FY2023 Annual Report Now Available
The Museum Education Roundtable is pleased to share the FY2023 Annual Report. The Board of Directors have worked incredibly hard to follow the organization’s mission of inspiring innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education. The annual review features a letter from FY2023 President, Michelle Dezember, highlights MER’s accomplishments … Read More