Museums and Their Visitors(1st Edition) (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-51332-6, ISBN: 0-415-51332-4
"Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences.Museums and Their Visitors aims to help museums and galleries in this crucial t ..."
Museums and Education(1st Edition) Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance (Museum Meanings) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-37936-6, ISBN: 0-415-37936-9
"At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance. The need to theorise learning and culture for a cultural theory of learn ..."
"This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view? How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museu ..."
Museum, Media, Message(1st Edition) (Museum Meanings) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-19828-8, ISBN: 0-415-19828-3
"Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums. Addressing the need for museums to develop better knowledge of visitor experience, this volume introduces a broad range of issues, and presents the ultimate how, why and who of museum communication. Museum, ..."
"Grounded in the solid strengths of its first edition, this updated and revised second edition, collates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The Educational Role of the Museum has been entirely restructured and new papers have been added which make this an up-to-date presentation of front-running theory and practice. Covering broad themes relevant to providing for al ..."
"Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums. Through the examination of case studie ..."
"This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view? How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museu ..."
Museum and Gallery Education(Updated) (Leicester Museum Studies Series) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Leicester Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7185-1761-8, ISBN: 0-7185-1761-X
"This text provides a thorough overview of the educational aims of all kinds of museums and galleries. It includes a discussion of different types of museums, their educational structures and arrangement, all of which vary enormously. Different forms of education provision are examined in relation to various types of both collection and audience. Taking into consideration the increased emphasis, at both local and governmental levels, on ..."
Museums and Their Visitors(1st Edition) (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06857-4, ISBN: 0-415-06857-6
"Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences.Museums and Their Visitors aims to help museums and galleries in this crucial t ..."
Museum, Media, Message(1st Edition) (Museum Meanings) by EileanHooper-Greenhill Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-11672-5, ISBN: 0-415-11672-4
"Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums. Addressing the need for museums to develop better knowledge of visitor experience, this volume introduces a broad range of issues, and presents the ultimate how, why and who of museum communication. Museum, ..."
"What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians, political scientists, educators, sociologists, and others in a wide-ranging exploration of institutions from art museums to zoos. Hugh ..."
Museum Meanings Ser.(1st Edition) Museums and Education : Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance by EileanHooper-Greenhill Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-37935-9, ISBN: 0-415-37935-0
"Dove Cottage Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Harris Museum & Art Gallery, ... New
Art Gallery Walsall Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Bristol Museums & Art ..."
"A compilation of articles addressing the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences, focusing specifically on educational groups."
Heritage Care-Preservation-Management Ser.: Museums and Their Visitors by EileanHooper-Greenhill 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91585-9, ISBN: 1-134-91585-3
"These seminars were chaired by a facilitator, and general thoughts were shared.
... Small informal focus group discussions with people representative of specific
target groups were held. ... probes and stimulation material to elucidate attitudes,
opinions, reactions, issues and expectations in relation to a specific topic (
Rubenstein, 1988). ... same age, both of whom were studying for the General
Certificate of Secondary Education ..."
Museum Meanings Ser. Museums and Education : Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance by EileanHooper-Greenhill 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-18169-8, ISBN: 1-134-18169-8
"There were some examples in the free writing and drawing that showed how the
museum visit had changed the attitudes of pupils. ... She draws herself under a
question mark and an exclamation mark as a way of depicting her feelings (
Figure 9.17). Renuka, aged 10, describes how her visit to Leeds City Art Gallery
has changed her mind about art, which she now thinks could be interesting52 (
FigureĀ ..."
Cultural Diversity(Updated) Developing Museum Audiences in Britain (Contemporary Issues in Museum Culture) by EileanHooper-Greenhill, E. . Hooper-Greenhill Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Leicester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7185-0268-3, ISBN: 0-7185-0268-X
"This work looks at the current situation in museums and galleries in the country in relation to cultural diversity. Just as Britain is a multicultural society, so museums and galleries are composed of objects that derive from many cultures."