Learning Programmes with Portraits

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Further Information and Reading

There are various resources to assist with advocacy for learning in museums, galleries and historic sites as well as how to plan programmes.

Related Organisations

• The Campaign for Learning in Museums and Galleries
  The campaign for learning through museums and galleries is a think tank for the cultural sector. CLMG argues that the uniqueness of museum learning lies in the engagement of learners - using real artefacts to motivate their learning experience.
  http://www.clmg.org.uk/
• Renaissance in the Regions - MLA (Museums, Libraries, Archives Council)
  Renaissance is a programme to transform England's regional museums. The programme has received £150 million of central government funding to make museums centres of life and learning.
  http://www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/renaissance
• Inspiring Learning For All
  Inspiring Learning for All assists you to find out what the people that use your services learn, assess how well you are achieving best practice in supporting learning and improve what you do.
  http://www.inspiringlearningforall.gov.uk
• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
  The MLA Partnership is government's agency for museums, galleries, libraries and archives. The MLA is focused on three stages of learning to which museums, libraries and archives are especially well placed to make a contribution: early years and family learning, school-aged children, adult learning and skills development.
  http://www.mla.gov.uk
• GEM (Group for Education in Museums)
  GEM promotes the importance of learning through museums, galleries and other cultural organisations. They produce the Journal of Education in Museums, which contains practical case studies. It is also worth joining their email list.
  http://www.gem.org.uk/
• Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto
  The Group for Education in Museums has supported the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, launched by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on 28 November 2006.
  http://www.gem.org.uk/lotc/lotc_menu.html
  Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto
  http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/resourcematerials/outsideclassroom/
• engage
  engage is a leading international association for gallery educators, artist educators and other arts and education professionals.
  http://www.engage.org/
• The National Virtual Museum (24 Hour Museum)
  This website has news and events, as well as trails and other resources, from 1000s of museums across the country.
  http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/

Books / Reports

• Culture on Demand. Ways to engage a broader audience.
  FreshMinds (DCMS, July 2007).
  A commissioned piece of research on broadening access for different audiences in the arts - useful case studies and good on working with key audiences (people with disabilities, people from lower socio-economic groups and BME audiences). Downloadable from the DCMS website:
  http://www.culture.gov.uk
• Learning through Culture, The DfES Museums and Galleries Education Programme: a guide to good practice
  Amanda Clarke, Jocelyn Dodd, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Helen O'Riain, Llewela Selfridge, Frazer Swift (February 2002, DfES pub no./0159/2002/).
  Downloadable on Teachernet
• Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The Value of Museums
  Evaluation of the 2003-2004 national/Regional Museum Education partnership.(DCMS/DfES ISBN no 1 898489 27 0).
  Interesting evaluation of regional partnerships and impact on local audiences.
  Downloadable on Teachernet
• The Manual of Museum Learning, Barry Lord (ed.) (AltaMira, 2007).
  Overview of planning learning programmes for a variety of audiences. Useful on interpretation, museum spaces and advocacy.
• Museum and Gallery Education, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (Leicester, 1991).
  The classic manual on putting a learning programme together (mainly for schools) and has been updated several times - useful if starting from scratch.
• Museums and Education: purpose, pedagogy, performance Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (Leicester, 2007).
  An up to date look at learning in museums that draws on new evaluation and planning tools such Inspiring Learning For All.
• Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference, Richard Sandell (Routledge, 2006).
  More useful for interpretation but it does look at alternate audiences and ways of understanding collections.

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