Learning at the Museum Frontiers

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'Viv Golding's Learning at the Museum Frontiers is a challenging feminist and post-modernist manifesto for tackling questions of race, difference and power in museums. It manages to be thoughtful and feisty, wide-ranging and positioned, clear and passionate. Containing a wealth of examples, it offers numerous ideas for making museums into spaces for new and even radical learning experiences.' Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester, UK 'Dr. Golding adds significantly to critiques of traditional museum practice by providing rich descriptions of newer program and exhibition methods at selected museums that address racism and other social inequities. Employing a feminist-hermeneutic framework, she illustrates how museums can become "respectful dialogic spaces" addressing issues of power and control to support democracy.' George E. Hein, Lesley University, USA 'This new work by Viv Golding repositions in critical fashion the spatial politics of race, knowledge and truth in the museum andA provides readers with an important advance in the creation of aA critical museum pedagogy. This is an outstanding work, which combines theory with practice in an engaging and readable fashion and I highly recommend it to the field of education.' Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'Viv Golding, a leading museum educator, draws on a wide range of material for her analysis - from critical studies of 'race' and gender, to post-colonial discourse, and Black feminist theory. In keeping with the recent work of social geographers, 'Learning at the Museum Frontiers' examines concepts of space, place and knowledge in its discussion of access, learning and power. The resulting text combines recent theoretical critiques and understandings with best practice implementation in the realm of museum and gallery work to produce a pedagogy of museum education.' Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal 'Golding draws on two decades of experience in arts educ