The Importance of Visitor-focused Educational Programming for Special Needs Access in Museums

Sova, Rajka Bračun

doi:10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v03i02/44323

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“…However, compared to people with sensory impairments, much less research has focused on the inclusion of people with intellectual impairments in museum learning experiences. For example, Sova (2010) claimed that for both Slovenian and European museum communities there is a common misconception that disabled people are a homogeneous group or comprise only those with mobility difficulties or sensory impairment. Iversen and Leong (2012:471) noted that an art museum in Denmark had initially failed to consider improving accessibility for visitors with intellectual disabilities "due to the perception that the general public feels that such visitors are not compatible to the institution of art".…”

Section: Approaches To Inclusion and Participation For Museum Visitors With Intellectual Impairmentsmentioning

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A participatory approach to the evaluation of participatory museum research projects

Tai-Seale

Carrizosa

Rix

et al. 2020

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

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In this paper we will describe, justify and critique a participatory approach that we have developed in order to evaluate the success of a participatory research project that was exploring ways of making museum learning experiences more inclusive for adults who have a diverse range of access preferences. Because we were researching in a unique space at the intersection of inclusive museum education, inclusive technologies and participatory research we have needed to develop an original evaluation approach; informed by methods and frameworks derived from other fields. We present examples of the kind of evaluation information that the framework elicited and use this as a basis to critique the strengths and weaknesses of the framework. Our experience of using creative methods for eliciting evaluation data suggest that useful information about participation can be revealed but that further improvements can be made in order to make the research experience more participatory.

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Section: Approaches To Inclusion and Participation For Museum Visitors With Intellectual Impairmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A participatory approach to the evaluation of participatory museum research projects

Tai-Seale

Carrizosa

Rix

et al. 2020

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

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“…In the second decade of the 21st century, Bračun (2010) carried out a "survey into educational programs and teaching methods for visitors with physical, sensorial, speaking, language, and learning disabilities, or suffering from mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, long-term medical conditions, or multiple disabilities. "…”

Section: Museum Educationmentioning

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Evolution and research trends of inclusive museum studies: a bibliometric approach

Valencia

Valencia-Arias²,

Zurc³

2020

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Inclusion is defined as the opportunity disabled people have to fully participate in different contexts: education, work, consumption, entertainment, and other daily social activities. For an understanding of that, this study aims at examine the evolution and research trends of the field of inclusive museums in order propose a line of research that includes growing and emerging concepts in this area of knowledge. For that purpose, technological mapping was carried out by means of a bibliometric analysis that examined 284 publications indexed in Scopus from 1987 to 2018. Results indicate that 47 countries have carried out studies on inclusive museums, within the framework of the research lines inclusive education and education in museums. Research that has been disseminated in greater measure through American journals. This bibliometric study on inclusive museums enabled to shed light on the productivity, impact, and networking of researchers in this field. Finally, this study constitutes a relevant starting point that not only presents trends in the field of inclusive museums but also encourages university communities and cultural institutions (such as Latin American museums) to consider the role they play in said area, as well as the visibility of their research efforts.

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A survey of networked and Wi-Fi enabled practices to support disabled learners in museums

Hayhoe

Carrisoza

Rix

et al. 2019

2019 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)

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This article reports on a survey of network and Wi-Fi enabled technologies to support disabled learners in museums and similar cultural heritage environments. In this study, literature is classified using the Epistemological Model of Disability, classifying and defining methodologies and ontologies as it does so. Data was collected using a systematic literature review using six academic databases, which included peerreviewed articles from a range of sources. The analysis addressed two research questions, and was developed in three phases: the first phase examined trends, definitions and methods of teaching and learning in cultural heritage; the second categorized genres that emerged in the first phase and discussed meta-levels; the third developed a critical discussion on teaching and learning models. The study had two principal findings: 1) museums have done much to make themselves part of the inclusion agenda, 2) more needs to be done to improve management strategies, increase agency and reduce practice using deficit models.

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The Importance of Visitor-focused Educational Programming for Special Needs Access in Museums

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A participatory approach to the evaluation of participatory museum research projects

A participatory approach to the evaluation of participatory museum research projects

Evolution and research trends of inclusive museum studies: a bibliometric approach

A survey of networked and Wi-Fi enabled practices to support disabled learners in museums

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