about Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom

by Therese Quinn

Foreword by Kevin K. Kumashiro

Series edited by William Ayers

Published by: Teachers College Press

Imprint: Teachers College Press

Sales Date: 2020-01-24

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Published: January 2020

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Imprint: Teachers College Press

Page Count: 112 Pages

Dimensions: 5.30 x 8.20

112 Pages, 5.30 x 8.20 x 0.30 in

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Museums are public resources that can offer rich extensions to classroom educational experiences, from tours through botanical gardens to searching for family records in the archives of a local historical society. With clarity and a touch of humor, Quinn presents ideas and examples of ways that teachers can use museums to support student exploration while also teaching for social justice. Topics include disability and welcoming all bodies, celebrating queer people?s lives and histories, settler colonialism and decolonization, fair workplaces, Indigenous knowledge, and much more. This practical resource invites classroom teachers to rethink how and why they are bringing students to museums and suggests projects for creating rich museum-based learning opportunities across an array of subject areas.

Book Features:

Links museums, classroom teaching, and social movements for justice.
Focuses on the cultural contributions of people of color, women, and other marginalized groups.
Organized around probing questions connecting history and contemporary events, museum formats and content, and activities.
Includes pull-out themes and resources for further reading.

Therese Quinn is an associate professor and director of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Contents

Singing in Dark Times: A Series Introduction?xi
William Ayers

Foreword?Kevin K. Kumashiro? xiii

1.?Introduction: Are Museums for Everyone? ?1
Museums Delight and Surprise?1
Museums Also Disappoint?2
Museums Want Us?Do We Want Them??2
Museums and Cultural Justice?5
Museums and Social Movements?6
Teaching Museums?7
Learning Museums?Chapter Topics ?8

2.?Who Made the First Museum? ?11
A Woman Made the First Museum?11
Origin Stories Reveal and Create Value?12
Looking Back to Look Forward?14

3.?Why Do Museums Collect??20
A Collection in Every Classroom?20
Collections, Science, and the Privilege of Curiosity?21
Sciences and Other Ways of Knowing?22
Museums for the Future?23
Our Full View?25

4.?What Have We Learned from the Past and About the Present That Can Help Us Shape the Future? ?29
Museum Revolutions?29
Return Wakanda?s Artifacts!?30
Decolonize Is a Verb?32

5.?How Can Museums Welcome All Bodies? ?38
Access and Experience?38
Designing to Include ?40
Nothing About Us Without Us!?41
Creative Access?42

6.?How and When Should Museums Respond to Everyday Events? ?47
Museums Are Not Neutral?47
Collecting and Archiving as Action?48
Museums Taking Sides?48
Exhibits as Agents of Change ?49
Rethinking Museums?51

7.?What Is It Like to Work in a Museum? ?56
People Make Museums?56
Museum Work Is Work?58
What Makes a Good Workplace??60

8.?How Can Museums Celebrate LGBTQ People?s Lives and Contributions? ?66
Holding Hands at the Museum?66
Centering Queer Lives ?69

9.?What Can Museum Practices Teach Us About Collaborating and Sharing Authority??77
Becoming Leader-Full ?77
Collaborators and Co-Curators?78
Resist Curation ?79
Making Exhibits to Build Community?80

10.?Why Do We Pay to Visit Museums??84
Museums Belong to Us?84
The Burden of Fees?85
Free Museums?86

Conclusion?90

Index?91

About the Author?96