Interactive Museum Tours
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538167410 (ISBN)
This easy-to-follow yet comprehensive book provides everything an educator working in a school or museum, in person or online, needs to develop experiences that encourage close looking, spark the imagination, and support the development of critical thinking skills.
Sharon Vatsky looks at the entire tour experience including planning, facilitation, and reflection. By providing a flexible tour-planning template – jointly developed by the education departments of the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, this book clearly articulates strategies and advice for the educator who wants to facilitate inquiries that encourage participants to think together and think deeply.
To demonstrate the flexibility and adaptability of the tour planning template, museum educators with deep experience specializing in working with diverse audiences share how they adjust the tour planning template to accommodate the attributes and strengths of the visitors they work with most closely. These accommodations to the template include ways to support family learning, school tours, virtual tours, promote social and emotional learning, work effectively with students with autism, adults with low vision and blindness and adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. These contributions are included to demonstrate that the tour planning template can be adjusted to support the varied abilities and learning styles of multiple audiences.
Features include:
An insider’s guide to tour planning featuring advice and strategies from museum educators across the U.S. A tested tour planning template that is adaptable and flexible for multiple audiencesHow to identify tour themes that work… and those that don’tWhat makes for effective object selection and sequencingHow to encourage and facilitate productive discussionsInserting the right factual and contextual information at the right timeMulti-modal activities for in-person and online participationAdapting your tour plans for varied audiences, including families, school groups, virtual groups and more…
A lifelong educator, Sharon Vatsky’s experience includes a decade as Curator of Education at the Queens Museum and more than twenty years at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, most recently as Director of Visitor Engagement. She has conducted workshops for teachers, and museum educators in the U.S. and internationally and taught graduate level courses in Museum Education at the City University of New York, Teachers College, Columbia University and New York University’s Graduate Program in Museum Studies as well as undergraduate courses in drawing, painting, design and art history and arts education. Her first book, Museum Gallery Activities: A Handbook was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2018.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Big Picture
Chapter 1: Why Museum Tours Still Matter
Chapter 2: An Introduction to Thematic Tours
Part II: Planning
Chapter 3: The Tour Planning Template
Chapter 4: Choosing a Theme
Chapter 5: Object Selection and Sequencing
Chapter 6: Writing and Sequencing Open-Ended Questions
Chapter 7: The Role of Information
Chapter 8: Multi-Modal Activities
Chapter 9: Advance Organizers, Transitions, Reflections
Chapter 10: Getting Ready
Part III: Facilitation
Chapter 11: Greeting and Orientation
Chapter 12: Supporting Participation
Chapter 13: Reflection and Evaluation
Part IV: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Diverse Audiences
Chapter 14: Audience at the Center
Chapter 15: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Youth Queena Ko
Chapter 16: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Students on the Autism Spectrum Melanie Adsit and Jackie Delamatre
Chapter 17: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Social and Emotional Learning Lisa Mazzola
Chapter 18: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Family Tours Emily Rivlin-Nadler
Chapter 19: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Virtual Tours for Adults
Chapter 20: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Adults with Visual Impairments and Blindness Karen Bergman
Chapter 21: Adapting the Tour Planning Template for Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias Francesca Rosenberg
Appendix 1: Questionnaire on Gallery and Virtual Museum Teaching
Appendix 2: Tour Planning Checklist
Appendix 3: Tour Planning Template
Bibliography
About the Contributors
About the Author
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 28 b/w photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 221 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781538167410 / 9781538167410 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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