Theorizing Equity in the Museum

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Spatial Justice Theory: Working Towards Justice: Reclaiming our Science Center; Chapter 2 Critical Pedagogy and Critical Theory: Museum Education and Critical Pedagogy: Re-imagining Power in the Art Museum; Chapter 3 Feminism, Intersectionality, and Decolonization Theories: "The Price We Have to Be Willing to Pay is Ourselves": Discussing Illusions of Inclusion in Science Centers and Museums; Chapter 4 Theories of Identity in Communities of Practice: Centering Equity and Access: An Examination of a Natural History Museum's Mentored Research Youth Program; Chapter 5 Foucauldian Discourses of Power: Discourses of Dissent: How Competing Agendas Prevent or Enable Sustainable Change Taking Place within Twenty-First Century Art Museums; Chapter 6 Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Feminist Theory: Female-Responsive Exhibit Design: Explorations of a Research-Practice Partnership; Chapter 7 Theories of Rightful Presence in Socio-Cultural Contexts: Vicious Cycles: Museums Marginalize the Museum Educators They Hire to Engage Marginalized Communities; Chapter 8 Social Models of Disability and Museum Research: Inclusion and Accessibility in Science Museums: Voices from Brazil Chapter 9 Embodied Theory and Lived Experience: Museums are Burning: Dare We Engage a Liberatory Imagination in Practice and Research?; Index