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Everyone who attended the successful conference last year in Ambleside was invited to this year’s
seminars and also new colleagues with a particular research interest in museums and education. Twenty five colleagues from around the world have accepted.
MUSEUMS,
IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP
QCA, 83 Picadilly,
London W1
Friday 15th -
Sunday 17th July 2005
Theme
Museums as guardians of our artifactual heritage play a major role in mediating the past for society. They are vehicles, often in a tacit form, for transmitting cultural messages about the nature and functioning of society, and how we relate to
others.
The seminar will address issues relating to the role of museums in education, drawing upon wide range of research evidence, both national and international.
Part 1(optional): Museums in
London: pre-seminar visits and review
Wednesday 13th July
Dinner at ‘Chez Gerard’ 7.30 p.m.
8, Charlotte Street
Fitzrovia
London W1T 2 LS
Thursday 14th July: Museum visits
Museum of London, Imperial War Museum, Geffrye Museum, National Portrait Gallery, (each led by history education tutor and museum education
officer)
Dinner at ’Bertorelli’s’, 7.30 p.m.
19 - 23 Charlotte Street
Fitzrovia
London W1T 2 NN
Part 2 The Seminars
Friday 15th July
9.30-11.00 Session 1: What is a Museum for?
Focus: on national, metropolitan and regional identity British Museum, Museum of London
11.30-1.00 Session 2: Museums and Conflict
Focus: on identity, reconciliation and citizenship – an international perspectives; Imperial War Museum, Northern Island, S. Africa - Robben Island, Cape
Town museum, District 6 museum
2.00-3.30 Session 3: Museums and Education
Focus: the role of museums as guardians [gardens – lovely typo!] of heritage and their interface with
education
- Virtual Reality, the Internet and Museum Education
- Distributed Museums
- School and Community Museums
3.30-4.00 Plenary and Review
4.00 Tea and Depart
Suggested format for seminars
- Each seminar has two presenters: 20 minute maximum papers
- One or both of the presenters for each seminar publishes paper on website which can be read in advance of conference and, in seminar, outlines key issues for discussion arising from paper (20 min?)
- Seminar titles can be modified to reflect issues raised for discussion.
- Issues must be linked to citizenship and identity.
- Papers to contain issues, related research and references.
- Where appropriate activities used in research or in museums can precede, intersperse or conclude a seminar.
- All participants invited to identify any key issues they would like to discuss – also on website in advance.
- Structure of seminars varied, e.g.
- 2 presentations followed by whole group discussion
- Each presenter leads discussion of half participants; feedback to whole group
- Triads create concept map representing discussion; posted for whole group to see
- In pairs list questions and or solutions in response to papers; pass on to next pair who add their own and/or respond to those given
( ad inf. ). Post these for group to read.
Symposium papers
Isabel Barca and Helena Pinto
How Children Make Sense of Historic Streets: Walking Through Downtown Guimarães
.doc
Instituto de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
Portugal
Hilary Cooper
Reconstruction of a Ball at Belvoir Castle in 1814: an analysis of how teachers’ can take creative initiatives within statutory frameworks
.doc
St. Martin’s College, Lancaster, England
Penelope Harnett
Exploring the potential for history and citizenship education with primary children at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in
Bristol .doc
Faculty of Education, University of the West of England, Bristol,
England
Jocelyn Létourneau
Museums and the (un)building of historical consciousness
.doc
Stéphane Levesque
Integrating Museum Education and School History:
Illustrations from the RCR Museum and London Museum of Archaeology
.doc
Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
Irene Nakou
Museums and History Education in Our Contemporary Context .doc
University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Danijela Trskan
Pedagogic activities of museums in the Republic of Slovenia
.doc
University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
David Gerwin
Object Lessons: Teachers, Historians, Narratives and Inquiry .doc
Queens College/City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
Lieke van Wijk
Developments in Heritage Education in Europe: EUROCLIO’s enquiries compared
.doc
EUROCLIO, The Hague, The Netherlands
Jon Nichol
Museums and Identity: Robben Island and the Cretan Cauldron .doc
School of Education and Life Long Learning, University of Exeter
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