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Museums and the past : constructing historical consciousness / edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone.

Summary:

"This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers."-- Page 4 of cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780774830614
  • ISBN: 0774830611
  • ISBN: 9780774830621
  • ISBN: 077483062X
  • Physical Description: x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Introduction: Perspectives on mseums and historical consciousness in Canada / Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone -- 2. The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and critical public engagement / Susan Ashley -- 3. The voices of the Canoe Project : weaving together indigenous and western historical knowledge traditions / Jill Baird and Damara Jacobs-Morris -- 4. The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum : a model institution / Lianne McTavish -- 5. Public pedagogy and the museum : the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, for example / Brenda Trofanenko -- 6. Changing views? : emotional intelligence, registers of engagement, and the museum visit / Laurajane Smith -- 7. Using museum resources and mobile technologies to develop teens' historical thinking : formative evaluation of an innovative educational set-up / Marie-Claude Larouche -- 8. Museums as in-between institutions : can they be trusted? / Lon Dubinsky and Del Muise -- 9. The concept of historical consciousness applied to museums : a case study of the exhibition People of Québec ... then and now / Pierre-Luc Collin, Claire Cousson, and Lucie Daignault -- 10. Controversy as catalyst : administrative framing, public perception, and the late-twentieth-century exhibitionary complex in Canada / Phaedra Livingstone -- 11. The gift of historical consciousness : museums, art, and poverty / Simon Knell -- 12. Museums and the responsibility gap / Robert R. Janes -- 13. Out of the box and into the fold : museums, human rights, and changing pedagogical practices / Jennifer Carter -- 14. Epilogue: The blossoming of Canadian museology and historical consciousness / Phaedra Livingstone and Viviane Gosselin.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic format.
Subject:
Museums > Canada.
Collective memory > Canada.
Museum techniques > Canada.
Museums > Canada.
Musées > Canada.
Mémoire collective > Canada.
Muséologie > Canada.
Collective memory.
Museum techniques.
Museums.
Canada.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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