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Journal of Museum Education Volume 37, 2012 - Issue 2: Professionalizing Practice
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Making the Case for the Museum Learning in its Own Right

Ben Garcia Ben Garcia is Head of Interpretation and Operations at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology located at the University of California, Berkeley. For fifteen years he has worked as an educator and administrator with an emphasis on arts-and object-based education, lifelong learning and professional development. He has presented nationally and internationally on informal learning, museums and social change. He holds a B.A. in Art from the University of Massachusetts and a M.S. Ed. in Museum Education and Leadership from Bank Street College. In 2010 Garcia was named Pacific Region Art Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.
Pages 47-55 | Published online: 02 Nov 2015

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  • John Cotton Dana, The New Museum (Woodstock: Elm Tree Press, 1917).
  • John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916).
  • Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 1998).
  • Stephen M. Dobbs and Elliot W. Eisner, “The Uncertain Profession: Educators in American Art Museums,” Journal of Aesthetic Education 21.4 (1987): 77–86.
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services, True Needs, True Partners: Museums and Schools Transforming Education (Washington, DC: IMLS, 2002). Survey highlights.
  • Elliot Eisner, “What Can Education Learn From the Arts About the Practice of Education?” The Encyclopedia of Informal Education. (2002) Retrieved November, 2011 from www.infed.org/biblio/eisner_arts_and_the_practice_of_edu
  • Ibid.
  • M. Csikszentmihalyi and K. Hermanson, “Intrinsic Motivation in Museums: Why Does one Want to Learn?” in J. H. Falk and L. D. Dierking, eds., Public Institutions For Personal Learning: Establishing a Research Agenda (Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 1995): 65–67.
  • Carol Scott, “Measuring Social Value,” in R. Sandell, ed., Museums, Society, Inequality (New York: Routledge, 2002): 41–55.
  • Philip Jackson lecture, Chicago, IL, August 2007.
  • J. H. Falk and L. D. Dierking, The Museum Experience (Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 1992).
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services, True Needs, True Partners: Museums and Schools Transforming Education (Washington, DC: IMLS, 1996).
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid.
  • bid.
  • Beverly Sheppard, “Insistent Questions in Our Learning Age,” Journal of Museum Education 35.3 (2010): 221.
  • Claudine Brown, (2010, May). Commencement Remarks. Speech presented at Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.

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