Museums and Higher Education Working Together

Preface:; Background; Digital Impact; Social Value; Implications; Opportunities for Higher Education; Steps Ahead; Part I Policy, Pedagogies and Possibilities; Introduction, Catherine Speight, Anne Boddington, Jos Boys; Part II Strategic Alliances, Knowledge Exchange and Opportunities; Chapter 1 Learning Activities, Learning Outcomes and Learning Theory, Stephen Brown; Chapter 2 Internships in Museum Studies: Learning at the Interface, Elizabeth A. Beckmann; Chapter 3 Understanding the Distributed Museum: Mapping the Spaces of Museology in Contemporary Culture, Susana Smith Bautista, Anne Balsamo; Chapter 4 Learning at the Interface: The Museum as Public Laboratory, Richard Watermeyer; Part III Curating, Collecting and Creative Practices; Chapter 5 Keeping Good Company: Art Schools and Museums, Sarah Ganz Blythe; Chapter 6 Curating Emerging Design Practice, Gareth Williams; Chapter 7 Artist-Led Curatorial Practice: Mediating Knowledge, Experience and Opinion, Tracy Mackenna, Edwin Janssen; Part IV Expectations, Assumptions and Obstructions; Chapter 8 'Museums and Galleries? No Thanks, Not For Me.' A Critical Review of Attitudes to Museum and Gallery Visits among University Students on an Education Degree Programme, Carrie Winstanley; Chapter 9 Tales from the Coalface, Leanne Manfredi, Rebecca Reynolds; Chapter 10 Enhancing Observational Skills: A Case Study. Collaboration between a University Art Museum and Its Medical School, Linda K. Friedlaender; Chapter 11 Object-Based Learning: A Powerful Pedagogy for Higher Education, Leonie Hannan, Rosalind Duhs, Helen Chatterjee; Chapter 12 Conclusion, Jos Boys, Anne Boddington, Catherine Speight; Afterword Afterword;