Chapter 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

In: Feminist Critique and the Museum
Author:
Monica Drenth
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212–226
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_012

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Abstract

This chapter is situated within a post-museum framework to explore how the Canadian Museum for Human Rights imagines itself to take up the practices of inclusion, dialogue, and critical engagement and the author’s own experience of these. She is simultaneously amazed at the museum’s structural beauty but she is equally disappointed by the ways the architecture intimates a journey of progress and hope that is at odds with ongoing societal inequity. This research demonstrates how feminist transformative learning theory can be utilised to rethink how museums are structured, how visitors experience museums, and how adult educators can apply the theory in ways that can critically engage learners in museum contexts.

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Feminist Critique and the Museum

Educating for a Critical Consciousness

Cover Feminist Critique and the Museum
E-Book ISBN:
9789004440180
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
24 Aug 2020
Front Matter
Copyright page
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Stories Museums Tell
Chapter 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy
Chapter 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives
Chapter 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy
Chapter 4 Hacking Language
Chapter 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls
Chapter 6 Signs Images Words from 1968
Part 2 On War, Peace and Human Rights
Chapter 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe
Chapter 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
Chapter 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives
Chapter 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women
Chapter 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Part 3 Illumination, Provocation, Imagination
Chapter 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’
Chapter 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums
Chapter 14 A Room of Her Own
Chapter 15 Cultures of Headscarves
Chapter 16 The Invisibility Cloak
Back Matter
Index

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