[Museum] Museum education today (Special issue of Museum & Society journal): Call For Papers

[Vera Moitinho <veramoitinho@gmail.com>]

Call For Papers

For a special issue of Museum & Society journal

Museum education today: synergies and innovations in multicultural contexts

Guest editors Dr Stella Sylaiou & Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti

We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums & Society which
will explore the current state in museum education theory and practice. Our
rationale begins with the motion that museums can engage new audiences,
trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity and imagination. In
today's multicultural societies, museums need to explore new synergies with
educational institutions and develop innovative means to address educational
challenges in engaging ways. In addition, information and communications
technologies ICT) as a burgeoning field of investigation provide to museums
a plethora of tools to share resources and communicate broadly to a wide
range of users.

The purpose of this special issue is thus two-fold: (a) explore the
synergies developed by museums in order to address the impact of informal
education in multicultural contexts and (b) the ICT innovations imported in
enhancing learning in informal and non-formal contexts.

Themes may include -but are not limited- to the following areas:

. Museum education in multicultural contexts: new research questions
. Community outreach and museum education
. Engaging immigrants through museum education: emerging case studies
. Museums and schools: towards the re-definition of a creative synergy
. Learning by doing through the use of interactive activities
. Experiential-based learning and museum education
. ICT and personalized museum education
. Mobile experiences and museum education
. Gamification and museum education
. Crowdsourcing and museum education
. Virtual and augmented reality and museum education

Send your abstract of
300 words along with a brief CV in both guest editors:
Dr Stella Sylaiou (ssylaiou@yahoo.gr) and Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti
(afilipp@yahoo.gr)

Deadline for abstracts: May 31st, 2013

All accepted abstracts will undergo a double peer-review process. The issue
is scheduled for publication in November 2014. For more information, feel
free to contact the guest editors.