Variant Title:
Interpretation as experience
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Teaching in the Art Museum ... investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education... Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee define and articulate a new approach to gallery teaching, one that offers groups of visitors deep and meaningful experiences of interpreting art works through a process of intense, sustained looking and thoughtfully facilitated dialogue."--Back cover.
Contents:
The art of teaching in the museum / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee --
A brief history of teaching in the art museum / Elliott Kai-Kee --
Gallery teaching as guided interpretation / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee --
Intense looks: solitude, scholarship, and a teacher's transformative experience / Rika Burnham --
Conversation, discussion, and dialogue / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee --
Questioning the use of questions / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee --
Information in gallery teaching: Charles Le Brun's Water tapestry / Rika Burnham --
Gallery teaching as interpretive play / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee --
The Barnes Foundation as a place for teaching / Rika Burnham --
The last temptation: teaching toward peak experiences / Rika Burnham --
The future of teaching in art museums / Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee.
