Claudia E. Cornett

Creating Meaning in Museums

Conservational Strategies for Guided Tours

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meaningful Museum Conversations: Strategies for Guiding Tours is a what, why, how book meant for inexperienced and seasoned guides, docents, and interpreters. The goal of the book is for show how guides can coax visitors to participate in informational conversations that involve unraveling universal meanings in artworks, objects, and artifacts

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9781538193686
• ISBN-10: 153819368X
• Artikelnr.: 70439651

Autorenporträt

Claudia Cornett has been a docent for over twenty years and is currently a museum guide and historic interpreter at two museums. After earning a PhD in curriculum and instruction and community education from Miami University, she joined the faculty of Wittenberg University and taught courses on arts integration and arts-based communication for over two decades. Two of her previous textbooks are: Creating Meaning through Literature and the Arts, 5e (Pearson), and Comprehension First: Inquiry into Big Ideas using Important Questions (Routledge). She's also written other professional books and articles and does creative writing. During a wide-ranging consulting career, Claudia has presented hundreds of keynotes and professional development programs for school districts and arts organizations throughout the United States and Europe, and in Canada and Mexico. Her interest in applying creative approaches to museum guide work is rooted in a commitment to helping people create their own meanings and experience the joy of insight.