The Social Work of Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Work of Museums write by Lois H. Silverman. This book was released on 2009-12-04. The Social Work of Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Museums may not seem at first glance to be engaged in social work. Yet, Lois H. Silverman brings together here relevant visitor studies, trends in international practice, and compelling examples that demonstrate how museums everywhere are using their unique resources to benefit human relationships and, ultimately, to repair the world. In this groundbreaking book, Silverman forges a framework of key social work perspectives to show how museums are evolving a needs-based approach to provide what promises to be universal social service. In partnership with social workers, social agencies, and clients, museums are helping people cope and even thrive in circumstances ranging from personal challenges to social injustices. The Social Work of Museums provides the first integrative survey of this emerging interdisciplinary practice and an essential foundation on which to build for the future. The Social Work of Museums is not only a vital and visionary resource for museum training and practice in the 21st century, but also an invaluable tool for social workers, creative arts therapists, and students seeking to broaden their horizons. It will inspire and empower policymakers, directors, clinicians, and evaluators alike to work together toward museums for the next age.
The Museum as a Space of Social Care
The Museum as a Space of Social Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Museum as a Space of Social Care write by Nuala Morse. This book was released on 2020-10-18. The Museum as a Space of Social Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community health and social care. This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum, and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into a space of social care. This book will appeal to museum studies scholars and professionals, geographers, organisational studies scholars, as well as students interested in the social role of museums.
Activist Social Work in Small Museums
Activist Social Work in Small Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activist Social Work in Small Museums write by Zachary A. Stocks. This book was released on 2014. Activist Social Work in Small Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While there is much dialogue around the potential for museums to engage in social work, there is little research on how museums practice social work at the community level. This study sought to explore the ways in which small museums engage in activist social work in their local communities. Data from three case studies inform how small museums can work to address local social problems. The research revealed four findings: 1) small museums see themselves as social work agents relative to the success of their social services; 2) small museums' social work is a collaborative and self-sustaining process; 3) small museums' social work is a mutual investment in the museum itself and the community; and 4) small museums assess successful social work through noticeable reductions in identified social problems as a result of their social service. An expanded understanding of small museums' social work provides new knowledge for museums of all sizes to use to help combat social problems in their communities.
Museums and Social Change
Museums and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Museums and Social Change write by Adele Chynoweth. This book was released on 2020-07-09. Museums and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, rethink the museum. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of museum practitioners and their partners around the world, the volume demonstrates the impact of a shared commitment to collaborative, reflective practice. Including analytical discussion from practitioners in their collegial work with women, the homeless, survivors of institutionalised child abuse and people with disabilities, the book draws attention to the significant contributions of small, specialist museums in bringing about social change. It is here, the book argues, that the new museum emerges: when museum practitioners see themselves as partners, working with others to lead social change, this is where museums can play a distinct and important role. Emerging in response to ongoing calls for museums to be more inclusive and participate in meaningful engagement, Museums and Social Change will be essential reading for academics and students working in museum and gallery studies, librarianship, archives, heritage studies and arts management. It will also be of great interest to those working in history and cultural studies, as well as museum practitioners and social activists around the world.
Museums and Social Change
Museums and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Museums and Social Change write by Gabriela Aidar. This book was released on 2001. Museums and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
