2013-14+Overview

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 *  Teaching History With Museums **
 * [[file:Teaching_History_w_Museums.jpeg|Schedule and Assignments]] **
 * [[file:Teaching_History_w_Museums.jpeg|Schedule and Assignments]] **


 * Guiding Questions **

1. How can we use museums as effective teaching or research tools, particularly to understand multiple perspectives? What opportunities do they create? What dangers do they pose?

2. How do museums enable us to engage the past? What avenues do they open up and what avenues do they close down?

3. What is the relationship of museums to other ways of knowing the past? How do they serve as evidence and as representations of the past in comparison to other primary and secondary documents?

4. How do museums understand their role in student education, particularly with regard to museums’ changing purposes?


 * Objectives **

1. Participants will skillfully analyze, interpret, and evaluate museums as mission driven interpreters of the past.

2. Participants will evaluate the role of museums in depicting the past, the role of museums in the development of students’ historical understanding, and the role of museum exhibits and museum collections.

3. Participants will deliberate the advantage and disadvantages of different types of museums and the strengths and weaknesses of various exhibit artifacts.

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