Call for Papers: Museum Pedagogic Strategies for Change

The International Journal for Lifelong Education is preparing a special issue on the theme "Museum Pedagogic Strategies for Change", which is due for publication in October 2017. It will be edited by Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford and Kay Johnson. A call for papers has been launched to select relevant articles. Museums and art galleries are important places for adult, community and public education and learning. Approaching the topic from museums as places adjusting or supporting the status quo, preserving what they consider as being neutral, impartial and objective, the editors think that creative and critical pedagogical and exhibition approaches are stirring up this situation. Eventually, these strategies "aim to take up, deconstruct, contest, re-construct, disrupt, and render visible social as well as institutional challenges and problems." This poses in a number of questions: What contributions are these cultural pedagogic sites making to social, cultural or ecological justice and change? How are they responding to a globalised, neoliberal, neo-colonial, inequitable/unequal, fundamentalist and intolerant world? What are the challenges they face in attempting to be progressive pedagogical sites of possibility? In this context, papers could explore the following areas:

• socio-cultural pedagogical challenges and politicisations;
• women and/or artists as adult educators;
• pedagogies in/as response to issues of identity, colonisation, fundamentalism, , neoliberalism, gender inequity, environmental destruction, and so forth;
• popular education, feminist adult education, arts-based adult education, and/or environmental adult education in the museum;
• decolonising methodologies and practices;
• conceptions and practices of visual and/or critical literacy;
• use of arts-based practices, artifacts and/or exhibitions in knowledge creation, mobilisation and/or social justice and change;
• contributions (and challenges) of technology;
• activism in/for the museum;
• social movement learning in/and the museum

Articles may share empirical research, theorise from the literature, and/or tell ‘stories’ of struggle and/or potential (as museums in particular are storytellers, and libraries carry ‘stories’ in the form of books, videos and readings). Abstracts should be sent by 1 September 2016. For additional information, please visit http://www.ne-mo.org/news/article/nc/1/browse/1/nemo/call-for-papers-special-edition-of-the-international-journal-for-lifelong-education/376.html