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Title

Museums, multimedia and history education

Author(s)

McShane, Ian

Abstract

The development of digital technologies, particularly multimedia, has been a site of intense activity for museums over the past decade or so. While the impact of multimedia on museums and museum interpretation has been widely debated, their use in museum education programmes — those designed against specified curriculum outcomes — has received less critical attention. Multimedia have radically altered relationships between education authorities and museums, teachers and learners, the physical museum and the virtual. The Australian National Inquiry into School History, which reported in 2000, called for the increased use of the resources of museums and other cultural heritage institutions in the teaching of school history, particularly through online programmes. While this call requires renewed consideration of the distinctiveness of the museum learning environment, the Inquiry’s conceptualisation of historical literacy and the pedagogical uses of new communication technologies can assist the work of museums in their response to these contested domains.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences

Source

Southern review, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2005), pp. 18-32

Publication year

2005

Keyword(s)

Museums;  Historiography;  Education;  Multimedia;  Internet;  Digital technology;  Australia;  History;  Social policy

Publisher

School of Applied Communication, RMIT

ISSN

0038-4526

Publisher URL

http://www.rmit.com.au/browse;ID=qvxc24u2lf6jz

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 Ian McShane. Author's final draft reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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