Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites
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- 2016
Summary
Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of historical individuals, communities, and populations who have suffered. It includes various examples of difficult knowledge, detailed examples of specific interpretation methods, and will give readers an in-depth explanation of the psychoanalytic educational theories behind the methodologies. Audiences can more responsibly and productively engage in learning histories of oppression and trauma when they are in measured and sensitive museum learning environments and public history venues.
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- Copyright year
- 2016
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-2437-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-2438-7
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 216
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- Contents No access
- Foreword: What We Risk No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter 1. Difficult Knowledge: History That Is Too Much to Bear No access Pages 1 - 24
- Chapter 2. Defining Difficult History: Risks, Reasons, and Tools No access Pages 25 - 68
- Chapter 3. Loss in Learning: Psychoanalytic Framework for Commemorative Museum Pedagogy No access Pages 69 - 98
- Chapter 4. Response and Responsibility: Ethical Representations of Difficult Histories No access Pages 99 - 134
- Chapter 5. Expanding and Elevating Slave Life History Interpretations and Uncovering Commemorative Museum Pedagogy No access Pages 135 - 168
- Chapter 6. Toward a Commemorative Museum Pedagogy No access Pages 169 - 188
- Bibliography No access Pages 189 - 194
- Index No access Pages 195 - 214
- About the Author No access Pages 215 - 216





