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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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Singing in Dark Times: A Series Introduction
Foreword
1. Introduction: Are Museums for Everyone?
Museums Delight and Surprise
Museums Also Disappoint
Museums Want Us—Do We Want Them?
Museums and Cultural Justice
Museums and Social Movements
Teaching Museums
Learning Museums—Chapter Topics
2. Who Made the First Museum?
A Woman Made the First Museum
Origin Stories Reveal and Create Value
Looking Back to Look Forward
3. Why Do Museums Collect?
A Collection in Every Classroom
Collections, Science, and the Privilege of Curiosity
Sciences and Other Ways of Knowing
Museums for the Future
Our Full View
4. What Have We Learned from the Past and About the Present That Can Help Us Shape the Future?
Museum Revolutions
Return Wakanda’s Artifacts!
Decolonize Is a Verb
5. How Can Museums Welcome All Bodies?
Access and Experience
Designing to Include
Nothing About Us Without Us!
Creative Access
6. How and When Should Museums Respond to Everyday Events?
Museums Are Not Neutral
Collecting and Archiving as Action
Museums Taking Sides
Exhibits as Agents of Change
Rethinking Museums
7. What Is It Like to Work in a Museum?
People Make Museums
Museum Work Is Work
What Makes a Good Workplace?
8. How Can Museums Celebrate LGBTQ People’s Lives and Contributions?
Holding Hands at the Museum
Centering Queer Lives
9. What Can Museum Practices Teach Us About Collaborating and Sharing Authority?
Becoming Leader-Full
Collaborators and Co-Curators
Resist Curation
Making Exhibits to Build Community
10. Why Do We Pay to Visit Museums?
Museums Belong to Us
The Burden of Fees
Free Museums
Conclusion
Index
About the Author
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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Singing in Dark Times: A Series Introduction
Foreword
1. Introduction: Are Museums for Everyone?
Museums Delight and Surprise
Museums Also Disappoint
Museums Want Us—Do We Want Them?
Museums and Cultural Justice
Museums and Social Movements
Teaching Museums
Learning Museums—Chapter Topics
2. Who Made the First Museum?
A Woman Made the First Museum
Origin Stories Reveal and Create Value
Looking Back to Look Forward
3. Why Do Museums Collect?
A Collection in Every Classroom
Collections, Science, and the Privilege of Curiosity
Sciences and Other Ways of Knowing
Museums for the Future
Our Full View
4. What Have We Learned from the Past and About the Present That Can Help Us Shape the Future?
Museum Revolutions
Return Wakanda’s Artifacts!
Decolonize Is a Verb
5. How Can Museums Welcome All Bodies?
Access and Experience
Designing to Include
Nothing About Us Without Us!
Creative Access
6. How and When Should Museums Respond to Everyday Events?
Museums Are Not Neutral
Collecting and Archiving as Action
Museums Taking Sides
Exhibits as Agents of Change
Rethinking Museums
7. What Is It Like to Work in a Museum?
People Make Museums
Museum Work Is Work
What Makes a Good Workplace?
8. How Can Museums Celebrate LGBTQ People’s Lives and Contributions?
Holding Hands at the Museum
Centering Queer Lives
9. What Can Museum Practices Teach Us About Collaborating and Sharing Authority?
Becoming Leader-Full
Collaborators and Co-Curators
Resist Curation
Making Exhibits to Build Community
10. Why Do We Pay to Visit Museums?
Museums Belong to Us
The Burden of Fees
Free Museums
Conclusion
Index
About the Author