Teenagers' Multisensory Routes for Learning in the Museum
Pedagogical Affordances and Constraints for Dwelling in the Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4918669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | For (0000-0003-1870-683X, Museum of Science, corresponding author), Vaike Fors |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 268-289 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174589313x13712175020479 |
| OpenAlex | W2076780675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
In this article I draw on a study of sensory aspects of teenagers' use of digital media, how these sensory aspects are incorporated in emerging learning strategies, and the implications of this for the same teenagers' engagement in museums. My focus is on how an ethnographic approach that attends to the senses may enable a critical review of prevailing pedagogical ideas in museums. Recent developments in museum education have led to large investments in state-of-the-art technology to produce interactive, multisensory exhibits. However, the question of how teenagers respond to these campaigns remains rather under-researched. This article shows how habitual use of digital media in teenage everyday practice incorporates learning to appropriate other people's experiences and ideas through a configuration of vision, touch, motion, and imagination, thereby enhancing non-representational learning qualities such as affect and sensation. The implications of this sensory approach open up routes to differentiate pedagogical settings in museums that on a superficial level apply the same educational technologies, but since they are based in different sensorial belief systems, different conditions for learning unfold in their use. In developing this analysis I argue that through ethnographic attention to the senses we might advance theories of learning within museum education
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Digital media · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology
Media, Place and Mobility
Places of Learning
Communities of Practice
Understanding Learning Culturally
Modernity at large
Doing Visual Ethnography
Sensual Relations
The Social Body
Multisensory Emplaced Learning
Pocket Technospaces
Embodied Knowing in Online Environments
The Culture of Speed
Theorising Media and Practice
Funds of knowledge for teaching
Doing Sensory Ethnography
The birth of the museum
Practices and Flows of Digital Photography
On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One
Dark funds of knowledge, deep funds of pedagogy
Situated Learning
The Perception of the Environment
The Corporeal Image
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |