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Activist Pedagogies in Museum Studies and Practice
As a complement to JME 47.4 Activist Pedagogies in Museum Studies and Practice, we are pleased to share this blog post. Dictionary.com describes lifelong learning as, “the provision or use of both formal and informal learning opportunities throughout people’s lives in order to foster the continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed for employment and personal fulfillment.”[1] … Read More
Collaborations: Notes from the Field
As a complement to JME 47.3 Collaborations: Notes from the Field, we are pleased to share this blog post by the guest editors Auni Gelles, Beth Maloney, Alexandra F. Morris, and Wade Berger. The Covid-19 pandemic led to a rethinking of society, and has also led to new partnerships which otherwise may have never occurred. This was reflected both inside … Read More
Radical Reimaginings In Museum Education
As a complement to JME 47.1: Radical Reimaginings in Museum Education, we are pleased to share this blog post by the guest editors Wendy Ng, Audrey Hudson, and Jaclyn Roessel. The calls to action and ongoing efforts to decolonize museums on Turtle Island (1), also known as North America, have been imagined, led, and sustained by Indigenous, Black, racialized and … Read More
Documenting Museum Education during Intersecting Pandemics
As a complement to JME 46.4: Snapshot: Documenting Museum Education During Intersecting Pandemics, we are pleased to share this blog post by the guest editors Paula Santos, Kimberly H. McCray, Gwendolyn Fernandez, and Amanda Thompson Rundahl. Remember when we thought the disruptions of the pandemic would last a few weeks or maybe a few months, at most? Museum educators said … Read More
Limin-alley: a lockdown art experience in Belfast
As a complement to JME 46.3: International Perspectives: What is Museum Education, we are please to share this article by former MER Board member Margaret Middleton. This article was originally posted on Museums Association on May 18, 2021. Between the long rows of terraced homes in Belfast run narrow alleys: not-quite-footpath, not-quite-road. Both public and private, they seem to belong … Read More
Museum Book Clubs
The latest Journal of Museum Education, Beyond the Cult of the Author: The Literary Museum Today, focuses on museums that are connected to literature and authors. Articles in the journal examine the ways in which these types of museums are using innovative programming to engage audiences in deep discussions. In conjunction with JME 45.3, we have created a list of … Read More
Museum Programming for Civic Engagement on Climate Change with Miranda Massie
Interviewed by Anais Reyes This guest post is authored by The Climate Museum, inspired by the JME issue 45.1, Museums and Public Climate Action. The Climate Museum is the first museum in the US dedicated to climate change. Through exhibitions, public art installations, youth programs, panels and workshops with experts, and more, the Museum uses programming as a way to … Read More
Online Learning JME Articles Available Now with Free Access
I am quick to admit that I can be resistant to putting myself, program participants, or students in front of a screen. And while this anti-screen attitude is becoming all the more palpable as I nurse a hangover from hours of back-to-back videoconferencing, I also am becoming humbly aware of how the screen is my main portal right now to … Read More