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The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university
students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education.
Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering
the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and 'experiential
learning' are being recognised in universities at both a strategic
level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts,
specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge
students' engagement with their subject, so transformational
learning can take place. This unique book presents the first
comprehensive exploration of 'object-based learning' as a pedagogy
for higher education in a broad context. An international group of
authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education
today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of
object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value
of using collections in this context and considering the
relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning
as a teaching strategy.
The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university
students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education.
Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering
the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and 'experiential
learning' are being recognised in universities at both a strategic
level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts,
specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge
students' engagement with their subject, so transformational
learning can take place. This unique book presents the first
comprehensive exploration of 'object-based learning' as a pedagogy
for higher education in a broad context. An international group of
authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education
today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of
object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value
of using collections in this context and considering the
relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning
as a teaching strategy.
Hylobatids (gibbons and siamangs) are the smallest of the apes
distinguished by their coordinated duets, territorial songs,
arm-swinging locomotion, and small family group sizes. Although
they are the most speciose of the apes boasting twenty species
living in eleven countries, ninety-five percent are critically
endangered or endangered according to the IUCN's Red List of
Threatened Species. Despite this, gibbons are often referred to as
being 'forgotten' in the shadow of their great ape cousins because
comparably they receive less research, funding and conservation
attention. This is only the third book since the 1980s devoted to
gibbons, and presents cutting-edge research covering a wide variety
of topics including hylobatid ecology, conservation, phylogenetics
and taxonomy. Written by gibbon researchers and practitioners from
across the world, the book discusses conservation challenges in the
Anthropocene and presents practice-based approaches and strategies
to save these singing, swinging apes from extinction.
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