Docents and Museum Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 74-103
Author(s):  
Jennifer Schero
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Museum Staff

Many art museums rely upon volunteers, often titled docents, to implement a range of educational offerings, including guided gallery experiences. As such, docents regularly engage visitors more than most museum staff members. A review of literature spanning over a century provides support for an examination of four reoccurring themes within museum education and docent history: uncertain definitions, professionalization, theoretical foundation, and embedded traditions. Subsequently, consideration of the past offers context for examining contemporary museum education programs that develop the capacity of docents as change agents, including offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic and developing inclusive practice through docent education. The chapter concludes with an envisioning of the future for docents within museum education.

Docents and Museum Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 238-268
Author(s):  
Jennifer Schero
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Museum Staff

Many art museums rely upon volunteers, often titled docents, to implement a range of educational offerings, including guided gallery experiences. As such, docents regularly engage visitors more than most museum staff members. A review of literature spanning over a century provides support for an examination of four reoccurring themes within museum education and docent history: uncertain definitions, professionalization, theoretical foundation, and embedded traditions. Subsequently, consideration of the past offers context for examining contemporary museum education programs that develop the capacity of docents as change agents, including offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic and developing inclusive practice through docent education. The chapter concludes with an envisioning of the future for docents within museum education.

scholarly journals PRESENT AND FUTURE OF COACH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-230
Author(s):  
Michel Milistetd
Keyword(s):  
Development Research ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coach Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sport Coaches

The field of sport coach development has changed considerably in the last decades and everything indicates that, in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world (VUCA world), many other changes will take place. It seems increasingly likely that ways will have to be found to harmonize on-the-job learning with the formal coach education programs from which qualifications are derived. In an attempt to analyze the present and to address some directions for the future of sport coach development research and practice, this insight paper presents the summary of a series of conversations with one of the researchers who has greatly influenced the development of sport coaches over the past 30 years, Professor Pierre Trudel.

Copiers do not collaborate

2014 ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Maurice Alford
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Status ◽  
Part Time

I’ve been teaching since 1973, some in area schools, some in intermediates, but mostly in secondary schools. Throughout my career I have enjoyed studying part-time, and in 2004 I was privileged to spend the year as an e-Fellow. I’m still studying, still reflecting on education in general and teaching in particular, and still very interested in what it means to be working in this space, what it means to be a teacher. In this piece I am therefore writing primarily with my colleagues in mind—I am writing for the classroom practitioners of today who are the teachers of the future. The ideas of connectedness and collaboration that I discuss here are based on what I have learned from my own practice. Built on a firm theoretical foundation, they represent my synthesis of education wisdom and philosophy. They are intended to challenge the status quo and to provoke change, just as the future challenges us to learn from the past but move from the present.

scholarly journals Organizational structures and the museum’s educative function. Empty options at the Reykjavík Art Museum

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
AlmaDís Kristinsdóttir ◽  
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
Museum Education ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Learning Institutions

Museum education is a field in flux that faces continuous theoretical and practical challenges. We argue that formal museum organizational structures, the informal, and experiences of museum workers should be intertwined. We also argue that the influence of museum educators on shaping policies is relevant. Formal organizational structures in museums should be acknowledged and systematically embedded in the shaping and governance of sustainable museum education practices if museums are to succeed as learning institutions. We contend that museum organizational structures disempower the development of museum education as a profession, serving other purposes more rigorously. We interviewed twelve museum staff members for this paper. They all worked at the Reykjavík Art Museum’s (RAM) education department as full-time and/or part-time employees from 1991 to 2018. Multiple meetings with the participants occurred from June 2011 until June 2018, resulting in twenty semi-structured interviews.

Vanaf die Dekaan / From the Dean

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nicola Smit
Keyword(s):  
Staff Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Die Fakulteit Regte is nou halfpad na ʼn honderdjarige. Weens haar ouderdom is sy diep begrond en strek haar takke en vrugte wyd. Ten spyte van haar ouderdom is sy egter steeds speels met baie planne en vol entoesiasme vir die toekoms. Ons is dankbaar dat ons hierdie mylpaal kon bereik, maar tyd is relatief en daar is immers die ou waarheid dat kosbare gedagtes ewig is en nooit oud sal word nie. Daar is talle gedagtes van ons vorige personeelkorpse verewig in joernale en boeke oor die afgelope 50 jaar en hierdie bundel bou daarop voort.The Faculty of Law is halfway in her journey to becoming a centenarian.  Her age ensures that she is a well-grounded and well-respected dame with the fruits of her labour stretching far and wide. Yet, despite her age, she is still sprightly and filled with enthusiasm for the future.  We are grateful that she could reach this milestone, but time, like so many things, is relative and the ancient truth remains that precious thoughts are everlasting and will never decay, diminish or grow old.  The thoughts and ideas of our previous staff members have been immortalised in journals, books and publications during the past 50 years, and this collection builds on this fine tradition.

scholarly journals Marketing the Surveying and Geospatial Profession

2014 ◽  
Vol XL-6 ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
J. Trinder
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Many universities around the world are experiencing a decline in the number of students entering programs in surveying and geospatial engineering, including some institutions with prestigious pasts. For Australia, this raises the question of whether there will be adequate graduates in the future to replace the current cohort of surveying and geospatial professionals when they retire. It is not clear why it has not been possible to attract more school leavers into the surveying and geospatial programs, but it may be because the community at large is unaware of the many career opportunities. Several surveys have been carried out in Australia to determine the status of graduates entering the profession and the impact that shortages of graduates in the surveying and geospatial professions in the future. These shortages could seriously limit the development of infrastructure and housing if they are not overcome. Another issue is whether the demand for graduates is changing due to developments in technology that allow surveying and mapping to be undertaken more quickly and efficiently than in the past. Marketing of education programs into schools and the general population is essential. A solution maybe for a concerted global effort to encourage more school leavers to enrol in surveying and geospatial engineering programs and hence improve the viability of the profession for the future. The paper will review the impacts of shortages in graduates entering the profession and approaches to improve the marketing of the surveying and geospatial professions.

The consolidation of microscopy technology into a university research support facility: Reflections on the 1980's and projections for the 1990's at the university of iowa

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 476-477
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Freeze Substitution ◽  
Research Support ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Grade ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Facility

The University of Iowa Central Electron Microscopy Research Facility(CEMRF) was established in 1981 to support all faculty, staff and students needing this technology. Initially the CEMRF was operated with one TEM, one SEM, three staff members and supported about 30 projects a year. During the past twelve years, the facility has replaced all instrumentation pre-dating 1981, and now includes 2 TEM's, 2 SEM's, 2 EDS systems, cryo-transfer specimen holders for both TEM and SEM, 2 parafin microtomes, 4 ultamicrotomes including cryoultramicrotomy, a Laser Scanning Confocal microscope, a research grade light microscope, an Ion Mill, film and print processing equipment, a rapid cryo-freezer, freeze substitution apparatus, a freeze-fracture/etching system, vacuum evaporators, sputter coaters, a plasma asher, and is currently evaluating scanning probe microscopes for acquisition. The facility presently consists of 10 staff members and supports over 150 projects annually from 44 departments in 5 Colleges and 10 industrial laboratories. One of the unique strengths of the CEMRF is that both Biomedical and Physical scientists use the facility.

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