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Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today (Hardcover)
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Museums struggle to meet the educational needs of its diverse
patrons. Aimed at museum educators, Multiculturalism in Art Museums
Today seeks to marry museums and critical multicultural education
theory. It reveals how the union of museums and critical
multiculturalism yields more equitable educational practices and
guides museum educators to address misrepresentation, exclusivity,
accessibility and educational inequality. This contemporary text is
directive; it encourages museum educators to consider the critical
multicultural education theoretical framework in their day-to day
functions in order to illuminate and combat the crux of museum
education shortcomings. This book adopts a broad definition of
multiculturalism, which names not only race and ethnicity as
concerns, but also gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability,
age, and class. Each of the eleven main chapters is a case study or
a reflective essay that provides an example of how this has been or
can be done.To begin, the introductory chapter comprehensively
discusses the historic and academic origins of critical
multicultural education, its tenants, and key essential questions
and specifically, how museum educators can utilize the theoretical
tools as foci (Nieto et al, 2008). Following this four overarching
chapter sections that bring attention to: *Gender and Sexuality, *
Race and Ethnicity, *Economic Class, and *Age and Ability. Each
section contains three to five chapters (reflective essays and case
studies) which closely illustrate what critical multiculturalism
looks like in museum education, as it relates to the section topic.
While focusing on these various facets of identity, the authors
demonstrate how museums are social systems that should offer
comprehensive, diverse educational experiences not only through
exhibitions but through various other avenues in which education is
imparted. The authors pull from their own research and practical
experiences which exemplify how museums have been and can be
attentive to these areas of identity.Then, adding to the
instructional role of this book, each of the four sections conclude
with a section summary titled, Translations in which the editors
identify and review main points of the section's chapters. The
section summaries 1) recap key practices and synthesize significant
ideas brought forth by the section chapter authors and 2) provide
very explicit suggestions on how to further advance critical
multicultural education in museums, as it relates to the section's
topic. Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today is hopeful and
inspiring, as it identifies and commends the positive and effective
practices that some museum educators have enacted in an effort to
be inclusive. Museum educators are at the front-line, interacting
with publics, and therefore, can be the real avant-garde of change
and modeling critical multicultural behavior and practices.
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