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“The Educational Promise of Historical Museum Exhibits”

“The Educational Promise of Historical Museum Exhibits”. Article written by: Brenda M. Trofanenko Acadia University In the Academic Journal: Theory and Research in Social Education Spring, 2010, Vol. 38, Number 2, pp. 270- 288. Creating A Historical Narrative Activity.

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“The Educational Promise of Historical Museum Exhibits”

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  1. “The Educational Promise of Historical Museum Exhibits” Article written by: Brenda M. Trofanenko Acadia University In the Academic Journal: Theory and Research in Social Education Spring, 2010, Vol. 38, Number 2, pp. 270- 288.

  2. Creating A Historical Narrative Activity While listening to this song , your job as a museum curator is to: 1. Classify/group the objects you were given. 2. Order the objects to tell a brief narrative from Canadian history. 3. Create a label for the display. 4. Photograph it. 5. Select one person to share the narrative with the class.

  3. Introduction “Public history museums play a critical role in validating a nation’s history. The museum’s institutional strategies of object display are used to define a particular representation of past events…often without critical reflection on their broader educational impact. ”

  4. Object based epistemology Epistemology is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, scope, and limitations of knowledge. It deals with analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such notions as truth, belief and justification. In the context of this article - it is concerned with the production of knowledge.

  5. Elements of a Museum Display Museum elements: • Physical exhibition space • Objects • Text panels • First person narratives • Short historical vignettes “Traditional exhibition standards turn the displayed objects into something else [a narrative] – that which we call history”.

  6. Trofanenko asserts: 1. “We need to know how to judge what is being presented as historical.” 2. “We need to engage in historical inquiry to understand the past on display.”

  7. Potential questions to ask students: • What is the story being told? • Why might they tell this story – at this time? • Describe the story from one display in your with one words. • Who is telling the story? • How are these objects “out of context”? • Are there alternative interpretations to this story? • What or who do you believe may be missing in the display? • Will the story change if we do not read the tags or we grouped the items differently? • How would it change?

  8. “I had long looked at representation of our peoples in museums and they all dwelled in the past. They were one—sided. We were simply objects among bones, bones among objects, and then signed and sealed with a date.” James Luna James Luna: Artifact Piece, 1985 -1987.

  9. Summary & Peer Evaluations If you are interested in seeing the NMAH exhibit on-line:www.americanhistory.si.edu/Militaryhistory/

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