{"product_id":"reculturing-museums-embrace-conflict-create-change-paperback","title":"Reculturing Museums: Embrace Conflict, Create Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDoris B. Ash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReculturing Museums\u003c\/em\u003e takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances (\"\u003ci\u003eWho will pay for museums?\u003c\/i\u003e\"), demographic shifts (\"\u003cem\u003eWho will come to museums?\u003c\/em\u003e\"), the roles of narratives (\"\u003ci\u003eWhose story is it?\u003c\/i\u003e\"), ownership of objects (\"\u003cem\u003eWho owns the artifact?\u003c\/em\u003e\"), and learning and teaching (\"\u003ci\u003eWhat is learning and how can we teach equitably\u003c\/i\u003e?\"). The \u003ci\u003ereculturing\u003c\/i\u003e stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, 'making change' first, within museums, called \u003ci\u003einreach\u003c\/i\u003e, rather than outside the museum, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecalled\u003ci\u003e outreach\u003c\/i\u003e; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eReculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoris B. Ash\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emerita in science education in the education department at the University of California Santa Cruz. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175271055609,"sku":"9781598745221","price":80.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/akZpbmh2LzllT3BxcGh1Qmdnb2R1Zz09.webp?v=1767665664","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/reculturing-museums-embrace-conflict-create-change-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}