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Enquiry Based Learning in Museums: A Mechanism for gallery evaluation
This project asks the question “What is the relevance of Classics to the 21st Century?” with Manchester students to encourage debate and regeneration of Classics though enquiry-based learning. Using a mixture of field work and project planning, the student cohort will develop key transferable skills. Students will devise approaches to formal assessment and evaluation of galleries, by directing their own investigations at key cultural sites in the UK. By encouraging students to take an interest in classics we are enabling them to enquire, question and debate, to be aware of the huge influence of the ancient world on their own lives and the ways in which it has been interpreted over the years.
Project Team: Bryan Sitch, Ella Louise Sutherland, Janet Tatlock, Kathryn McTavish Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: manchester, museums, gallery, classics, culture, widening participation, schools, teamwork, evaluation, debate
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Values & Worth: an EBL approach to encountering and constructing collections
The project aims to create a reflective and investigative learning object based around the notions of 'Value' and 'Worth' which will be explored and examined in terms of what makes an object valuable (Determiners of Value); how an object is viewed in a collection (artefact, Art or commodity); who decides what is valuable (Professionals, academics, connoisseurs, consumers, general public) and finally what some of the problems might be with ascribing value. The project hopes to produce a template for enquiry that can be used in any collection visiting context.
Project Team: Janet Tatlock Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: museum, art, value, artifact, object
