Are Museum Educators Still Necessary?

Autor/inn/en	Munley, Mary Ellen; Roberts, Randy
Titel	Are Museum Educators Still Necessary?
Quelle	In: Journal of Museum Education, 31 (2006) 1, S.29-40 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-8650
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Audiences; Museums; Teachers; Exhibits; Accountability; Public Service; Change Agents; Public Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Spectator; Zuschauer; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Verantwortung; Public services; Öffentlicher Sozialdienst; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	Over the last two decades, the role of education in museums has shifted from being the purview of a specific set of individuals charged with creating programs and activities for school children and other visitors to being the central purpose of our institutions. This new paradigm distributes education responsibilities across the museum. Given this situation, many thoughtful museum educators are grappling with issues of role definition and identity. The work of the museum educator has expanded beyond crafting programs suitable to particular audiences to that of providing linkages between a museum's resources and a community's needs. Today there is a leadership challenge for museum educators comparable in importance to the revolution about audiences and access begun in the 1970s. The challenge is for museum educators not to retreat to the comfort zone of technical acuity, but to step forward with new strategies, new alliances, and new ways to forge civic engagement and demonstrate public value. (Contains 5 contains and 8 resources.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10