Border pedagogy and empowerment education in museums

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Semedo, Alice (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Socializing art museums

Pages: 107-142

ISBN: 978-3-11-064632-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-11-066208-5

Publisher: De Gruyter

Other information

DOI: 10.1515/9783110662085-007

Abstract (EN): Becoming an educated citizen means learning a lot of facts and mastering techniques of reasoning. But it means something more. It means how to be a human being capable of love and imagination. We may continue to produce narrow citizens who have difficulty understanding people different from themselves, whose imaginations rarely venture beyond their local setting. It is all too easy for the moral imagination to become narrow in this way. [...] We produce too many citizens that are like Marley’s ghost, and like Scrooge before he walked out to see what the world around him contained. But we have the opportunity to do better, and now we are beginning to seize that opportunity. That is not political correctness; that is the cultivation of humanity.1[...] In this journey, I have also learned how important it is to take the obvious as the object of our critical reflection, and to enter into it, to discover that it is not, at times, as obvious as it seems

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific