The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education

List of contributors; SECTION ONE : Setting the context: museum and heritage education - a force for change - 1.Defending Museum Education; 2.The Rise of a Profession - Museum Education: From Enlightenment to Empowerment; 3. Philosophical Perspectives on the Educational Dimensions of Museums; 4. Who Pays the Piper and Who Calls the Tune?; 5. Museums as Pillars of the Establishment or Agents of Change: Smithsonian initiatives; 6.Decolonisation: what does it mean for museum education?; 7.Empowering Museum Educators: achieving equity, inclusion, and professional recognition; SECTION TWO: Theory and experience in museum education: pedagogies in practice - 8. Pedestals or Portals? An exploration of representations of museums and museum learning in and through children's literature; 9. Into the History in Open-Air Museums; 10. Connecting Children to Art and Cultural Heritage; 11. Time and Place: sites of memory and the sense of history; 12. Embracing the Untouchable: strategies for engaging learners with intangible heritage; 13. Uncovering the Authentic Unknown: the place of mystery in museum education -archaeological museums; 14. Speaking Visual - the Importance of Visual Literacy in Art Museum Education; 15. Making sense of Scotland - Creative use of Scotland's Historic Environment as a National Resource to Support Learning and Inclusion; 16. Light after Loss: the role of museum and heritage education in guiding grief and nurturing empathy; SECTION THREE: A virtuous circle: the role of research in museum and heritage education - 17. Science Centres and Museums: public laboratories for studying free-choice/informal science learning; 18. Evidence-based Museum Education; 19. Staging Climate: art, nature, culture in the production of knowledge in the museum; 20. Facilitating Object-based Learning Through Digital Touch Replicas when Collections are Untouchable; 21. Archival Institutions as Laboritaries for Change; 22. Engagement and Education at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society: a praxis for sustainability; 23. Changing Minds: how intergroup contact through participatory arts can improve dementia care; SECTION 4: Open doors, open minds: nurturing museum accessibility and inclusivity for a more democratic model - 24. Engaging Everyone -Participation as a Means and an End within Museum Education and Practice; 25. Young adults (age 18-30) as a specific target group within cultural institutions - practice considerations for curators of education; 26. Reaching out: changing the visitor social dynamic; 27 Policies and Practices of Museum Education and Social Inclusion - the Case of Egyptian Museums; 28. Memorial sites as catalysts for healing and hope: confronting and interpreting difficult and traumatic history for formal learning purposes; 29. Here and Queer: an evolving Practice of LGBTQ+ Heritage Engagement in the UK; 30. Getting to know you - facilitating visitor identity and relatability in Mexican museums; SECTION FIVE: Future-proofing: how museum education can take a more forward-looking stance - 31. Museum Education, Activist Pedagogies, and Forced Migration: or, how can museum education change the world?; 32. Culture and Connectivity: how digital is shaping the future of museum education (with a note of caution); 33. Building Nuance: using museum education to move away from black-and-white thinking in India; 34. Unlocking Industrial Heritage Meanings and Legacies for the Post-industrial Generations; 35. Telling Another Tale: feminist pedagogical strategies toward a sense of agency; 36. Racial Hauntings: enfigurement in the modern South African museum; 37. Shaping a Reinvigorated Cultural Landscape: exploring museum education practices and perspectives in the Middle East; 38. What Next? museum and heritage education, and sustainable development; Index.