Museums and Education Hooper-Greenhill Eilean University of Leicester UK
Museums and Education Hooper-Greenhill Eilean University of Leicester UK At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. If culture acts as a process of…
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Museums and Education Hooper-Greenhill Eilean University of Leicester UK
At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. If culture acts as a process of signification, a means of producing meaning that shapes worldviews, learning in museums and other cultural organisations is potentially dynamic and profound, producing self-identities. 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 is very pressing.
What can this 'measurement' reveal about the character of museum-based learning? How is this complexity to be 'measured'? The calibration of culture is an international phenomenon, and the measurement of the