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This module explores the learning and teaching opportunities that take place in spaces typically defined as cultural places. As the boundaries between formal and informal learning blur, alternative sites for learning such as heritage sites (including gardens, zoos and the eco-museum via geo-tourism) have extended their educational remit beyond the pamphlet or guide-book. This module explores and critically appraises the educational potential and social role of these sites within a social justice context. Students will be required to critique received views of heritage, culture and history within an increasingly global context and to offer an alternative perspective on heritage, museum and gallery learning, develop a critical understanding of the social contribution the heritage industry can make to building new cultures and communities, establish the need for criticality in relation to learning and teaching in informal educational sites, understand the structures and ideologies that sustain heritage culture within the global context. Students not enrolled on the MA Museums and Galleries in Education or MA Art Education, Culture and Practice听programmes MUST contact the module tutor in the first instance before selecting on Portico.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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