From Pedagogical Museum to Instructional Material Center: Education Libraries at Teacher Training Institutions, 1890s to 1970s

Attebury, Ramirose Ilene; Kroth, Michael

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“…Genoways and Andrei, 2008;O'Neill, 2008) may be of interest to 'any field that claims the public sphere as either its principle object of study or primary realm of scholarly practice' (Castaneda, 2009). The interest of an evolutionary and historical approach applies also to other museum-related learning venues, such as education libraries (Attebury and Kroth, 2012). Museums' evolution can be seen in the context of educational trends and schools of thought (Delors, 1996).…”

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Can art museums help environmental education? An interdisciplinary vision to promote meaningful learning

Echarri

2020

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Environmental education is a discipline that tries to find new methodologies and tools to advance in the achievement of its goals. The museum education proposed by art museums, because of its specific methods and power of significance, can be a way forward for environmental education that is worth exploring. The theory of meaningful learning can be used by both disciplines to support and achieve more meaningful, and therefore lasting, learning among people. The complementarity and synergy between these disciplines can be established from their points of conceptual coincidence. The main research goals of this article have been two: to study and show the intrinsic complementarity of these disciplines from a conceptual viewpoint, and to show how their combined strength and complementarity can inspire specific educational proposals for the challenges of education in the twenty-first century. For example, those that focus on educating on the complexity of the world. The presentation and discussion of this conceptual framework may suggest educational instructions that move towards the interdisciplinary nature of environmental education, using as an educational resource that which is housed in art museums.

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“…These examples closely follow the work of educational philosophers such as John Dewey, who considered libraries and museums central to education and the school (Dewey 2009), views that gained prominence at the 1937 New Fellowship conference held in Canberra in 1937. In Dewey’s educational model, the library and educational museum are given primary focus as “conduits” to help pupils experiment and test out the theories of art, music, nature, science and the library/museum functions to create a “laboratory” of learning (Attebury and Kroth 2012, p. 52). Calls for modernisation of art education in Australia in this period reflected the reforming objectives of Buisson and Pearson some 50 years earlier.…”

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From Sèvres to Melbourne: Art and education museums in 19th-century Victoria

Griffith¹,

Carroll²,

Farrell

2021

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PurposeThis paper focuses on the donation in 1888 of a Sèvres Vase to the Education Department of Victoria after the International Exhibition in Melbourne. Using the vase as its focus the paper reflects on what this donation may be able to tell us about the impact, primarily on education, of a series of International Exhibitions held both in Australia and internationally between 1851 and 1900. The life of the Sèvres vase highlights the potential of the Exhibitions for the exchange of ideas internationally, the influence of the International Exhibition movement on education and the links between a 19th-century gift and the teaching of Art in 1930s Melbourne.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines one object in relation to education in its wider historical context through a reading of the archival records relating to the Melbourne Teacher’s Training College and Melbourne High School.FindingsThe influence of the educational exhibits of the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition held in Melbourne are shown to have had an impact on the design of the Melbourne Teachers Training College.Originality/valueThis paper provides a new and original perspective on the Melbourne Teachers Training College and its foundation through its library and museum collections.

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Utilizing Illinois State University's Environmental Legacy and Historical Collections to Sustain a Global Future

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The scholarly capital of materials at Illinois State University includes numerous natural history collections from the mid-nineteenth century that hold significant research and historical value. Changes in pedagogical methods and academic leadership, however, created confusion and territorial competition in who would preserve and manage the collections. Consequently some specimens from those early collections have been both lost and forgotten. This thesis used a systems approach to track the material losses incurred when institutional support shifted in the 1870s, and the original collectors and curators left Central Illinois for national interests in Washington, D.C. Yet, historical environmental collections have become increasingly valuable sources of data for researchers as the specimens and collector notes enable scientists to determine anthropogenic influences on environmental systems on a global scale. Curators currently face significant challenges in maintaining these collections and making them available for global research. Lack of consistent funding, dedicated time, physical space, and awareness of the significance of the specimens has left the collections diminished and threatens their future. This thesis provides an historical overview of these significant collections and an analysis of the contemporary concerns that could benefit from the scientific wealth in these specimens

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From Pedagogical Museum to Instructional Material Center: Education Libraries at Teacher Training Institutions, 1890s to 1970s

Cited by 5 publications

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Can art museums help environmental education? An interdisciplinary vision to promote meaningful learning

Can art museums help environmental education? An interdisciplinary vision to promote meaningful learning

From Sèvres to Melbourne: Art and education museums in 19th-century Victoria

Utilizing Illinois State University's Environmental Legacy and Historical Collections to Sustain a Global Future

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