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A new publication by Leicester Lecturer in Communication and Education, Dr Viv Golding.

Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power

University of Leicester academic tackles questions of race, difference and power in museums.

In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier, to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society.

’This new work by Viv Golding repositions in critical fashion the spatial politics of race, knowledge and truth in the museum and provides readers with an important advance in the creation of a critical museum pedagogy. This is an outstanding work, which combines theory with practice in an engaging and readable fashion and I highly recommend it to the field of education.’ – Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

‘Viv Golding’s Learning at the Museum Frontiers is a challenging feminist and post-modernist manifesto for tackling questions of race, difference and power in museums. It manages to be thoughtful and feisty, wideranging and positioned, clear and passionate. Containing a wealth of examples, it offers numerous ideas for making museums into spaces for new and even radical learning experiences.’ – Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester, UK

’Dr. Golding adds significantly to critiques of traditional museum practice by providing rich descriptions of newer program and exhibition methods at selected museums that address racism and other social inequities. Employing a feminist-hermeneutic framework, she illustrates how museums can become “respectful dialogic spaces” addressing issues of power and control to support democracy.’ – George E. Hein, Lesley University, USA

Publication details:

• Title: Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power
• Author: Dr Viv Golding
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-4691-4
• Pages: 246
• Published: August 2009
• Price: £55

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