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Perspectives on Cultural Context: The Use of an Online Participatory Learning Environment as an Expansion of the Museum Visit

Technology offers opportunities for museums to expand the ways in which cultural perspectives relevant to objects on display can be exchanged and understood. Multimedia content offered online in an environment with user input capabilities can encourage dialogue and enrich visitor experiences of museums. This action research project using narrative analysis was an effort to develop the use of web technology in museum education practice, with an emphasis on constructivist learning. Concepts including the visitor-centered museum and multiple narratives led the researcher to collaborate with a pre-service art teacher education classroom and a local Hindu community to create content that might better develop understandings of one museum's Hindu sculpture collection that are personal, cultural, and complex.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc31548
Date08 1900
CreatorsSreenan, Patrick N.
ContributorsKundu, Rina, Bain, Christina Bittel, Mayer, Melinda
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 123 p., Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Sreenan, Patrick N., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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