The Promise of Cultural Institutions
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The Promise of Cultural Institutions

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eBook - ePub

The Promise of Cultural Institutions

About this book

This thought-provoking collection of essays is essential reading for anyone who cares about cultural institutions and their role in the community of learners. These institutions-often museums or libraries-have the power to profoundly alter our sense of ourselves and of the world around us, but that power carries with it obligations. David Carr challenges us to contemplate both the effects and the responsibilities, to examine carefully the nuances of these experiences. Yet a visit to a cultural institution is itself only one act in the broader activity of learning throughout our lives. Carr has much to say about the experience of learning in its best sense and thus speaks not only to lovers of cultural institutions, but also to lovers of learning everywhere.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9780585471860
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY BOOK SERIES
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction: Promises and Institutions
  8. 1 - A Museum Is an Open Work
  9. 2 - Museums, Educative: An Encyclopedia Entry
  10. 3 - In the Contexts of the Possible: Libraries and Museums as Incendiary Cultural Institutions
  11. 4 - A Community Mind
  12. 5 - The Situation that Educates
  13. 6 - A Poetics of Questions
  14. 7 - Museums and Public Trust
  15. 8 - Crafted Truths: Respecting Children in Museums
  16. 9 - The Promise of Cultural Institutions
  17. 10 - Ten Lessons and One Rule
  18. Appendix A: Selected Readings
  19. Appendix B: To Observe
  20. Appendix C: Each Life: Cultural Institutions and Civic Engagement
  21. Index
  22. About the Author