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The module aims to engage students critically in key questions relating to and dimensions of (1) curating and education in museums, galleries, and heritage (2) by curators, educators, artist-educators, and (3) for diverse visitors, audiences, and communities. It will provide students with:
- systematic overall understanding, and a critical awareness of, current issues/new insights into how and why curating is central to our understanding of what museums, galleries and heritage sites 鈥榙o鈥� when they 鈥榙o鈥� education, learning, and pedagogy
- a conceptual understanding that enables them to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship on contemporary sector practices, and also historical trajectories in galleries, museums and heritage sites
- a comprehensive understanding of 鈥榬esearch methodologies鈥� appropriate for advanced scholarship on/in museums, galleries, and heritage, alongside the capacity to evaluate such methodologies used in order to develop critique
- originality in the utilisation of diverse knowledges, together with a practical understanding of how established research techniques and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledges in the relevant academic disciplines and professional domains
- the ability to investigate critically (a) current (and historical) academic debates (in Curatorial Studies, Museum Education, Radical Pedagogy, Exhibition Studies, and Artistic Research) (b) the practices of artists, designers, and architects, and (c) art, museum, gallery, and heritage sector education/curatorial/policy professionals
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
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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