This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums
and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and
understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators,
artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond
the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the
complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity,
meaning making and interpretation, knowledge, authority, prescription,
innovation, and creativity. The contributors are a combination of
scholars, professors, graduate students, heritage and cultural adult
educators, artists, curators and researchers from Canada, United
States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Denmark, Portugal, Italy and
Malta. Collectively, they challenge us to think about the dialectics
of passivity and engagement, didactics and learning, gender neutrality
and radicality, and neutrality and risk-taking amongst a collage of
artworks and artefacts, poetry andinstallations, collections and
exhibits, illusion and reality, curatorial practice and learning,
argument and narrative, and struggle and possibility that define and
shape modern day art and culture institutions. The chapters, set
amongst the discursive politics of neoliberalism and patriarchy,
racism and religious intolerance, institutional neutrality and
tradition, capitalism and neo-colonialism, ecological devastation and
social injustice, take up the spirit and ideals of the radical and
feminist traditions of adult education and their emphases on cultural
participation and knowledge democracy, agency and empowerment, justice
and equity, intellectual growth and transformation, critical social
and self reflection, activism and risk-taking, and a fundamental
belief in the power of art, dialogue, reflection, ideological and
social critique and imaginative learning.
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ISBN
9789463006873
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
SensePublishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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