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Original Articles

Professional Organizations and the Professionalizing of Practice

The Role of MER, EdCom, and the NAEA Museum Education Division, 1969–2002

Pages 13-23 | Published online: 02 Nov 2015

Notes

  • In the notes below, the following abbreviations are used:
  • RR Museum Education Roundtable, Roundtable Reports
  • JME Museum Education Roundtable, Journal of Museum Education
  • unp. Unpaginated
  • Museums for a New Century: A Report of the Commission on Museums for a New Century (Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 1984), 55.
  • Stephen M. Dobbs and Elliot W. Eisner, The Uncertain Profession: Observations on the State of Museum Education in Twenty American Art Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1986).
  • Susan K. Nichols, ed., Patterns in Practic: Selections from the Journal of Museum Education (Washington, DC: Museum Education Roundtable, 1992), 48–59.
  • RR (Sept. 1973): unp.
  • In the publication's early years Roundtable Reports were issued irregularly; none were published in 1974.
  • Donna Barnard Ari, “From the Chairperson,” RR (Spring 1977): unp.
  • Roberta Babis, Sue McCoy, and Viki Sand, “Common Concerns Yield Uncommon Solutions,” RR 8, no. 1 (1983): 5–7.
  • Paul Piazza, “Fighting the Good Fight, Museum News 52, no. 7 (Apr. 1974): 33–35; Joan Madden, “The AAM Education Committee: Who, What, When, Where, Why?” RR (Winter 1976): unp.
  • Sue R. Hoth, “AAM Education Committee Presents First Symposium in Series,” RR (Spring 1976): unp.
  • Barbara Y. Newsom and Adele Z. Silver, eds., The Art Museum as Educator (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), 612–24.
  • “MER Wraps up Learning Theory,” RR (Spring 1977): unp.
  • Teresa Covacevich Grana and Allen Bassing, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” RR (Spring 1976): unp.
  • Susan Mayer, audiotape interview by Nancy Berry, Nov. 26, 1999. Courtesy of Scott Winterrowd.
  • Ellie Caston, audiotape interview by Nancy Berry, ca. 1999. Courtesy of Scott Winterrowd.
  • Christopher Crosman, letter to the editor, RR 5, no. 1 (1980): 2.
  • Mary Alexander and Ken Yellis, “The Journal of Museum Education,” RR 7, no. 4 (1982): 2.
  • Joan Madden, “The Paper Chase,” RR 7, no. 3 (1982): 2.
  • RR 9, no. 1 (Winter 1984).
  • Museums for a New Century, 57 (see note 1).
  • Nina Jensen and Mary Ellen Munley, “Training for Museum Education Professionals,” JME 10, no. 4 (Fall 1985): 12.
  • National Art Education Association, NAEA News 28, no. 3 (June 1986): 20.
  • NAEA News 29, no. 1 (Feb. 1987): 20.
  • NAEA News 29, no. 6 (Dec. 1987): 6.
  • “The Denver Meeting: Full Report,” unpublished typescript (Denver, CO: Museum Educators on Museum Education, 1987). Courtesy of Patterson Williams.
  • Nancy Berry and Susan Mayer, eds., Museum Education: History, Theory, and Practice (Res-ton, VA: The National Art Education Association, 1989), 5.
  • For my own attempt at a first draft of important aspects of the history of museum education in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, see “A Brief History of Teaching in the Art Museum,” in Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee, Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011), 19–58.
  • Carolyn Blackmon, “News from EdCom,” RR 8, no. 3 (Spring 1983): 2.
  • JME 14, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 11–13.
  • Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums, A Report from the American Association of Museums (Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 1992).
  • Nikki Black, “Notes from EdCom” JME 16, no. 3 (Fall 1991): 19–20.
  • Carol Stapp, “From the Editor-in-Chief,” JME 21, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 24.
  • Scott G. Paris, “From the Guest Editor,” JME 22, no. 2/3 (1997): 2.
  • NAEA News 39, no. 6 (Dec., 1997): 11; NAEA News 40, no. 6 (Dec., 1998): 10; NAEA News 41, no. 6 (Dec., 1999): 10.
  • Anne El-Omami, “Museum Education Division Report,” NAEA News 32, no. 2 (Apr. 1990): 12.
  • Kim Kanatani, “Museum Education Division Report,” NAEA News 40, no. 1 (Feb. 1998): 11.
  • Nikki Black, “Notes from EdCom”: 21 (see note 30).
  • Excellence in Practice: Museum Education Principles and Standards, http://www.edcom.org/professional_standards.asp.

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