Toward a pedagogy of feeling: understanding how museums create a space for cross-cultural encounters
Contribuinte(s) |
Witcomb, Andrea Message, Kylie |
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Data(s) |
01/01/2015
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Resumo |
In this chapter I engage with two developments – a growing understanding that citizenship involves political activity on the part of citizens in the public sphere and that affective relationships are an important aspect of this activity – to engage with the increasing use of affective interpretation strategies within exhibitions. I argue that the use of these strategies can be understood as the beginning of a new moment in museological practice that is concerned not so much with finding ways to become more pluralistic in who is represented within museums but with building opportunities for cross-cultural encounters in ways that question established relationships between self and other. I call this new moment “a pedagogy of feeling,” marking it as distinctive from both “a pedagogy of walking,” a term used by Tony Bennett to encapsulate the specific exhibition strategies that supported evolutionary narratives, and “a pedagogy of listening,” which I suggest marks the moment when exhibition practices were concerned with finding ways to increase the number of voices found in museum exhibitions as part of a civic program to encourage greater degrees of tolerance. Central to a pedagogy of feeling is, I argue, the idea of a “terrible gift” (as Roger Simon calls it), which is enacted through an exhibition syntax that uses a wide variety of affective or sensorial interpretation strategies. |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Wiley |
Relação |
DP120100594 http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30074484/witcomb-towarda-2015.pdf http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1002/978118829059.wbihms116 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118829059 |
Direitos |
2015, Wiley |
Palavras-Chave | #Museum Theory #Museum Studies #affect #pedagogy of feeling #citizenship #cross-cultural encounters #terrible gift |
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Book Chapter |