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Adults are learners too! from Museum Questions blog
Questioning Listening and reflecting on tours
How to View Art: Be dead serious about it but don't expect too much
How to view art: however you want to
Productive Information: Contextual Knowledge in Museum Education
Classroom Confidential - 12 secrets of great teachers
Teaching yourself to teach with objects
Outside the Frame Melinda Meyer, Art Education, July 2012
Active Learning Paper by Kayla Federline, Education Intern 2012
Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience, Rika Burnham and Elliot Kai-Kee
Chapter 1 The Art of Teaching in the Museum
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon
Chapter 2 Participation Begins with Me
Chapter 4 Social Objects
http://artmuseumteaching.com/about/
Not Just for Field Trips Any More: 7 Ways to Ignite Learning at the Art Museum
Lecture, Conversation, Discussion or Dialogue
Wall Street Journal Article: Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
New York Times Article about docents
Recommendations for reading about Contemporary Art:
Terry Barrett, Why is that Art? Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art; NY, Oxford Press, 2008
Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel; Themes of Contemporary Art - Visual Art after 1980, NYC, Oxford PRess, 2010
Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940 - Strategies of Being, NYC, Henry Abrams, 1995
David Joselit, American Art Since 1945, NYC, Thames and Hudson, 2003
HAA Museum Education Annual Report 2010-11 - Part 1 and 2
Creating a Culture of Thinking: A New Kind of Docent Education Program
Cultivating a Culture of Thinking in Museums by Ron Ritchhart
Serving the Community Training Museum Educators to Meet
Teacher Needs
Body Language: How to Talk to Students about Nudity in Art from the Art Institute of Chicago
History of Women in Western Art
Making a Museum Visit Fun for Toddlers, Teens, and In-Betweens from the Art Institute of Chicago:
http://fun.familyeducation.com/recreation/visiting-museums/35123.html
Art to Art: Anatomy of a Merger, Honolulu Magazine March 2011
NYTimes video on Chinese Scrolls with Maxwell Hearn, the new head of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Honolulu Magazine, January 2011, Tour and Tea article
Huffington Post article on Abstract Art March 2011
Interview with George Hein The Museum as Classroom