Women in the Museum explores the professional lives of the sector’s female workforce, examining the challenges they face working in what was once a... Læs mere
Based on interviews with twenty leading scholars, Conversations on Human Nature probes the question of what it means to be human from evolutionary, biological, philosophical, cultural, and theological points of view.
The Reflective Museum Practitioner explores a range of expansive and creative ways that the concept of 'reflective practice' has been applied in the informal STEM learning environments of museums and zoos.
Renowned scholar and founder of the practice of narrative inquiry, D. Jean Clandinin, and her coauthors provide researchers with the theoretical underpinnings and processes of narrative inquiry for working with the special populations of children and youth.
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences.Written... Læs mere
Mixed Methods Research: A Personal History captures the dynamic history and development of mixed methods research in a narrative of personal discovery, growth, and experience.
This book presents a much-needed review of commercial closures for bottles and jars used in America prior to World War II.
This book explores the history of children's toys and games bearing racial stereotypes, and the role these objects played in the creation and maintenance of structures of racialism and racism in the United States, from approximately 1865 to the 1930s.
Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundation–sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field
This innovative multimedia, interactive ethnography, researched over a period of four decades, explores the changing life of a community in central Mexico as it comes more and more directly into contact with an increasingly global world.
This book offers a step-by-step guide to historic house museums to make them more informative and sustainable through an inclusive, visitor-centered paradigm of the shared experience of human habitation.
Marginalized by an increasingly top-down, assessment-driven university system, the fifteen contributors from a variety of disciplines show the responses... Læs mere