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Learning Through Looking: How can we use museum objects to ignite critical enquiry?

Learning Through Looking: How can we use museum objects to ignite critical enquiry?. Maggie Wood & Richard Lumb Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University. Handling MoDA objects. Copies of Handling Guidelines are on your tables: Wear gloves Pencils only

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Learning Through Looking: How can we use museum objects to ignite critical enquiry?

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  1. Learning Through Looking:How can we use museum objects to ignite critical enquiry? Maggie Wood & Richard Lumb Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University

  2. Handling MoDA objects Copies of Handling Guidelines are on your tables: • Wear gloves • Pencils only • Objects in sleeves must stay in sleeves • No food or drink near the objects • Be sure not to lean on the objects • Ask for help if you need it

  3. Object Analysis 15 minutes You will working in small groups Each group will have one MoDA object Examine the MoDA object and answer the questions on the Object analysis form. Please discuss your answers as a group and designate one of you to be the scribe, in order to record your answers on the form. Ignore the drawing activity – we don’t have time!

  4. Object Analysis Methodology & Development

  5. The museum object as ‘a release mechanism for creative endeavour.’ (Kjolberg, 2010: 122)

  6. Object Analysis Questionaires: Why use them? • Encourage critical thinking • Provide students with a method of interrogating objects • Encourage students to draw on their existing knowledge and experience • Emphasises the need to test initial ideas and thoughts by carrying out further independent research, in order to complete the ‘Deduction’ section of the questionnaire

  7. Object analysis questionnaires:How successful? • Too early to say…. • Students are noticeably more engaged • Students draw on existing knowledge and experience when answering the questionnaire • The Student Impact Project – a 3 year project to track the performance of Art & Design undergraduates who make use of MoDA’s collections as part of their course.

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