Museum, literature and education: indicative examples from Greece and Germany
Abstract
The museum is a place of non-formal learning, where the educational processes aim to connect learning with culture, entertainment, inspiration, creation, while the latter is activated by the exposed objects. The museum artifacts are offered for multiple interpretations and can activate learners to search for their personal meaning, in order to discover knowledge. Therefore, museums organize exhibitions aiming for the cognitive and psychological involvement of the public/students with the exhibits, and especially literary museums seek the literary communion of visitors, where teaching is accomplished through discovery methods, often in the form of play. Consequently, visitors/ students become participants in this experience and not mere recipients of an already configured exhibition. In this study two examples of museum educational programs are presented, one from Greece and one from Germany, in order to examine the similarities and differences in the educational practice, as the comparative investigation of educational programs is scarce in the relevant literature.
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Mortaki, S., & Blioumi, A. (2016). Museum, literature and education: indicative examples from Greece and Germany. Dialogoi! Theory and Praxis in Education, 2, 103–117. https://doi.org/10.12681/dial.10028
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