Learning At The Museum Frontiers Aug 2009

Now available from Ashgate Publishing…

Learning at the Museum Frontiers Identity, Race and Power

Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK ‘Viv Golding’s Learning at the Museum Frontiers is a challenging feminist and post-modernist manifesto for tackling questions of race, difference and power in museums. It manages to be thoughtful and feisty, wideranging and positioned, clear and passionate. Containing a wealth of examples, it offers numerous ideas for making museums into spaces for new and even radical learning experiences.’ – Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester, UK ’Dr. Golding adds significantly to critiques of traditional museum practice by providing rich descriptions of newer program and exhibition methods at selected museums that address racism and other social inequities. Employing a feminist-hermeneutic framework, she illustrates how museums can become “respectful dialogic spaces” addressing issues of power and control to support democracy.’ – George E. Hein, Lesley University, USA ’This new work by Viv Golding repositions in critical fashion the spatial politics of race, knowledge and truth in the museum and provides readers with an important advance in the creation of a critical museum pedagogy. This is an outstanding work, which combines theory with practice in an engaging and readable fashion and I highly recommend it to the field of education.’ – Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the

Contents: Preface; Section I Introduction: The Spatial Politics of

museum has the potential to function as a frontier, to tackle injustice

the

and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and

heritage; Space: the museum and the new spatial politics of the

promote truth. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical

frontiers. Section 2 Including New Voices and Forms of Practice: Power:

contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they

inserting new visibilities in the museum margins; Control: shifting

can contribute to society.

relationships in the whole museum. Section 3 Critical Collaborative

Museum Frontiers; Race: repositioning and revaluing cultural

Museum Pedagogy: Identity: motivation and self-esteem; Towards a new museum peadgogy: learning, teaching and impact; Conclusion: pedagogy in museums; Bibliography; Index. Includes 1 table, 4 figures and 23 b&w Illustrations

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August 2009 246 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-4691-4 £55.00 This title is also available as an eBook 978-0-7546-8964-5