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Quia
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Tate gallery

What does Tate do for educational programs and what technology do they use?

Tate has different websites for different targetaudiences
they have tate >> for general information and for adults
they have tate young >> for students
they have tate kids >> for kids
the also have a whole part on their website for schools and teachers >> where you can find free educational resources, teaching resources you can buy online, information about planning a visit and more.
Next to all this the also have a online learning section >>

What I really like about the Tate websites is that the all have very different information and the materials are very extended. When you open a particular website you instantly see for which audience it is made.

Victoria and Albert museum

What does the Victoria and Albert museum do with technology in their educational programs?

The V&A offers guidance notes for running a digital event for museum educators >>

What do they call a digital event: "a digital event is any activity where visitors use digital equipment to produce an outcome". >>

You can also listen online to audios from curators, design tutors, students and others and they are working on audios you can download from their Website >>

website media education UK >>

Interesting publications on use of technology in museums I want to research more

* Varisco, R.A., & Castes, W. M. (2005)
Survey of webbased educational resources in selected U.S. art museus.
Unpublished manuscript see here >>

"Varisco and Castes identify 11 types of educational resources that focus on the delivery of
information".

* GeeGuides

Source: P. Villeneuve. From Periphery to Center: Art Museum Education in the 21th Century. M. L. Buffington. Six themes in the History of Art Museum Education (p 17)

Different kinds of technology that are being used in museums

- online discussion forums
- mobile devices
- educational websites
- blogs
- podcasts
- user genarated content

Six Themes in the History of Art Museum Education by Melanie L. Buffington

This chapter explores six important themes in museum education:
1. experimenting and responding to society
2. educating to improve society
3. delivering appropriate content
4. meeting school curricula and collaborating with teachers
5. improving practice with theory and research
6. developing and implementing emerging technologies

Experimenting and responding to society
In the second half of the 19th Century museums start to experiment with didactic labels, public lectures, schoolprograms, and educational exhibitions.

Educating to improve society
Museums start to develop educational programs that allow contemporary social trends. Also the educational offerings for adults start to grow. Because of the growing amount of leisure time for the middle class museums offer ways to spend time like gallery talks, lecture series and classes for this particular target group. Museums used exhibitions to teach about good taste. Museums who did this are Victoria and Albert (london) and The Toledo (Ohio).

Delivering appropriate content
At the beginning of the 20th Century museum educators believed that the goal of education was to improve society. During this time you see that the educational programs focused on delivering correct information about museum objects and their philosophy. Relating to school curriculum was not a priority during this time.

Meeting school curricula and collaborating with teachers
As the field grew teachers and museum educators started working more closely to make museum experiences more meaningful for students. A lot of research has been done to explore the ways museums and schools work together. Not all museums use the knowledge of teachers out of the field but use curriculum guidelines when developing museum programs.

Improving practice with theory and research
Before the 1970s little research has been done on museum education. After this time not much changed until 1992 when The Amarican Association of Museums published Excellence and equity: education and the public demension of museum. After this museum educators started communicating about ways of learning in a museum.

Developing and implementing emerging technologies
More and more programs are being developed that use interactive devices or the internet. Research on this subject is just developing.

Book: P. Villeneuve (2007). From Periphery to Center Art Museum Education in the 21th Century. National Art Education Association.

Curriculum Changes for the 21th Century: Visual Culture in Art Education by K. Freedman and P. Stuhr

In this chapter the writers talk about the changes that have taken place in our world. We now live in a visual world in what borders are being crossed and technology is being used in almost everything we see around us. The world is based on images. Because of this change art education has to change. As the writer says: ‘visual culture is in a continual state of becoming and should be taught as such’.

The things discussed in this chapter are very valuable for my research. The whole chapter is about how the world is changing and what it is changing in to. I can definitely use this to put some things I will read during my research in perspective. I am looking forward to reading more articles/books about this.

Book: Eisner, E.W. and Day, M.D. (2004). Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

20th-Century Art Education: A Historical Perspective by J.H. White

In this chapter White talks about the development of Art Education, the establishment of different art organizations, museum education, research, and the ideas people had trough the whole 20th century about education. He starts with handwork and craftwork and the introducing of manual training in the schools at the beginning of the 20th century and discusses the whole development from that point on. He discusses the use of advertisement in the 1920s and the use of technology from the 30s and on like film and television.

This chapter is helpful for my research because it gave me insight in the developments in Art Education. It gave me a base of knowledge that I can use trough the rest of my research.

Book: Eisner, E.W. and Day, M.D. (2004). Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Changing subject

I have decided to change my subject to museum education.

Because of the research I am already doing on this subject outside of this class I think I can use the blog as a way to explore ideas in museum education and research the relationship between museums and education. I am also interested in the way museums use technology in their exhibitions as a way of learning.

I will start with posting a number of summaries I wrote of texts I have been reading.