A Risk Worth Taking: Incorporating Visual Culture Into Museum Practices.
Description:
As a museum educator who embraces social education and reflects on the postmodern condition, I found working within a traditional museum context to present challenges. As a result, I conducted an action research project focusing on ways to improve my own practice and affect change based on my engagement with visual culture discourse and the docents I teach. Having chosen action research, I implemented various teaching approaches and collected data over the course of several months. These data …
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Date:
December 2008
Creator:
Wurtzel, Kate