Toward a pedagogy of feeling: understanding how museums create a space for cross-cultural encounters Witcomb, Andrea 2015, Toward a pedagogy of feeling: understanding how museums create a space for cross-cultural encounters. In Witcomb, Andrea and Message, Kylie (ed), Museum theory, Wiley, Chichester, Eng, pp.321-344, doi: 10.1002/978118829059.wbihms116. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Toward a pedagogy of feeling: understanding how museums create a space for cross-cultural encounters Author(s) Witcomb, Andrea orcid.org/0000-0002-9128-2896 Title of book Museum theory Editor(s) Witcomb, Andrea orcid.org/0000-0002-9128-2896 Message, Kylie Publication date 2015 Series The international handbooks of museum studies Chapter number 16 Total chapters 25 Start page 321 End page 344 Total pages 23 Publisher Wiley Place of Publication Chichester, Eng Keyword(s) Museum Theory Museum Studies affect pedagogy of feeling citizenship cross-cultural encounters terrible gift Summary In this chapter I engage with two developments – a growing understanding that citizenship involves political activity on the part of citizens in the public sphere and that affective relationships are an important aspect of this activity – to engage with the increasing use of affective interpretation strategies within exhibitions. I argue that the use of these strategies can be understood as the beginning of a new moment in museological practice that is concerned not so much with finding ways to become more pluralistic in who is represented within museums but with building opportunities for cross-cultural encounters in ways that question established relationships between self and other. I call this new moment “a pedagogy of feeling,” marking it as distinctive from both “a pedagogy of walking,” a term used by Tony Bennett to encapsulate the specific exhibition strategies that supported evolutionary narratives, and “a pedagogy of listening,” which I suggest marks the moment when exhibition practices were concerned with finding ways to increase the number of voices found in museum exhibitions as part of a civic program to encourage greater degrees of tolerance. Central to a pedagogy of feeling is, I argue, the idea of a “terrible gift” (as Roger Simon calls it), which is enacted through an exhibition syntax that uses a wide variety of affective or sensorial interpretation strategies. ISBN 9781118829059 Language eng DOI 10.1002/978118829059.wbihms116 Field of Research 210204 Museum Studies Socio Economic Objective 950303 Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter Grant ID DP120100594 Copyright notice ©2015, Wiley Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30074484 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Alfred Deakin Research Institute School of Humanities and Social Sciences ERA Postprints Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 16 Jul 2015, 11:03:02 EST Thu, 16 Jul 2015, 11:05:10 EST Fri, 17 Jul 2015, 05:00:49 EST Fri, 24 Jul 2015, 06:07:40 EST Mon, 27 Jul 2015, 14:16:00 EST Tue, 28 Jul 2015, 14:35:43 EST Fri, 06 Apr 2018, 15:46:40 EST Fri, 06 Apr 2018, 15:47:47 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 342 Abstract Views, 8 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 16 Jul 2015, 11:05:10 EST

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