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Theorizing Equity in the Museum: Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice

Theorizing Equity in the Museum: Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice

Bevan, Bronwyn
Ramos, Bahia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

General ReferenceGeneral ArtGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0367422867
ISBN13: 9780367422868
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 13 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices.

Written during a time when museums around the world were being forced to reckon with their institutional practices of exclusion; their histories of colonization, both cultural and intellectual; and, for many, their tenuous business models, the chapters leverage a range of theoretical perspectives to explore lived experiences of working in the museum towards changing the museum. Theories of spatial justice, critical pedagogy, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical race theory, and others are used to consider how the museum's dominant cultural structures and norms collide with museum professionals' aspirations for inclusive practices. The chapters present a mix of empirical research and reflections, which collectively operate to theorize the museum as a potential force for enriching, empowering, and transforming an inclusive public's relationship with some of our most powerful ideas and aspirations. But first they must change, from the inside out.

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