The role of the museum in creating multi-cultural identities : lessons from Canada

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The role of the museum in creating multi-cultural identities : lessons from Canada

Garth Allen and Caroline Anson

Edwin Mellen Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index

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内容説明

Aims to tackle the question of how we can encourage people to develop a deeper sense of community, in such a way that the process in itself does not promote exclusions of those who do not belong. The museum, this book argues, can and should increase toleration in an increasingly intolerant world.

目次

  • List of Tables i
  • Acknowledgements iii
  • Preface v
  • A Guide to Commonly Used Terms in the Text vii
  • Introduction 1
  • Chapter 1: Strangers to Culture 5
  • The Origins and Outcomes of Modernity 21
  • On Counter-modernity 33
  • Chapter 2: From 'Public Space' to 'Sacred Space' - One Large Leap for Humankind? 39
  • A Brief Note on Empirical Matters 50
  • The Road Ahead 57
  • Chapter 3: Culture as Ideology 61
  • Cultural Resistance 74
  • Canada and the Cultural Other 75
  • Canadian Experiences of Community Building 78
  • Chapter 4: Learning to Be (Canadian) 89
  • Enlightenment's Legacy 89
  • Making Sense of Being Canadian 92
  • Cultural Ecology and Social Representations Theory 97
  • Learning, Being and the Cultural Context 104
  • Chapter 5: Museums of Meaning 115
  • Personal Meaning Maps 117
  • The Empirical Study: Negotiating Access and Focus 119
  • Learning in the Museum 123
  • Learning in the Museum Environment: The Canadian Context 132
  • Exhibitions, Lessons and Children 140
  • Chapter 6: Museums as Learning Organisations 149. Chapter 7: Cultural Policy and Practice 161
  • Linking Cultural Ecology to Tourism 169
  • Chapter 8: Sacred Spaces - The Role of Museums in Negotiating Cultural Difference in Late Modernity 175
  • Culture as a Civilizing Process (in negotiating cultural difference) 179
  • The Use of Culture as a Resource (within a creative economy) 180
  • What Culture is in Terms of Art Forms (in all its diverse expressions) 185
  • Policy Applications 196
  • Learning to Be 201
  • Chapter 9: Going over Old (Sacred) Ground 205
  • Bibliography 213
  • Index 227. List of Tables
  • Table 1: Models of Systems Thinking 110
  • Table 2: Visitor Knowledge of First Nations: Codes for Personal Meaning Maps 121.

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