Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.

The need to theorise learning and culture for a cultural theory of learning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415379350
• ISBN13: 9780415379359
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.8"