ABSTRACT

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable, this is volume 37, Number 2 of the Journal of Museum Education (JME), published in the summer of 2012. This edition includes articles on the recent history of museum education; professionalizing of practice; museum evaluation, rebranding the museum, an examination on technological impacts and the role of the MER.

chapter |5 pages

From the Guest Editors

Professionalizing Practice: A Examination of Recent History in Museum Education

chapter |11 pages

Articles

Professional Organizations and the Professionalizing of Practice: The Role of MER, EdCom, and the NAEA Museum Education Division, 1969-2002

chapter |11 pages

Museum Evaluation

Where Have We Been? What Has Changed? And Where Do We Need to Go Next?

chapter |9 pages

Innovations in Practice

An Examination of Technological Impacts in the Field

chapter |8 pages

What We Do Best

Making the Case for the Museum Learning in its Own Right

chapter |9 pages

From Insurgency to Re-Branding

Museum Education’s Long, Strange Trip

chapter |10 pages

Tools, Frameworks, and Case Studies

Archaeology Excavation Simulation: Correcting the Emphasis

chapter |3 pages

Perspectives

The Voice of Authority

chapter |3 pages

Book Review

Speak Up for Museums: The AAM Guide for Advocacy, By Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied

chapter |1 pages

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