Learning Styles in Gallery Education
Thursday 21 February 2008, Glasgow
What are the most useful frameworks to describe and evaluate how audiences
engage with contemporary art and learning in a gallery context?
This collaborative seminar provided an opportunity for delegates to review
several different frameworks including Inspiring Learning For All, using
Generic Learning Outcomes, (GLOs) and the usefulness of their application
within contemporary gallery education.
The seminar was facilitated by Emily Pringle, who recently undertook a review
of these issues for engage, Learning in the Gallery; Context, Process,
Outcomes.
Sarah Saunders, Learning & Programmes Officer, National Museums Scotland,
(NMS), presented a case study on how GLOs have been used in developing and
evaluating exhibitions at NMS.
Annie Bicknell, Head of Education at Bow Arts Trust, London gave a presentation
where she discussed the following:
-
Learning Styles - what are they? Accommodating different preferences
- Practical
exercise to assess your own learning preference?
- Why we evaluate?
- Brief
overview of the en-quire programme
- Exploring frameworks of evaluation
through en-quire
- A glimpse of some of the pros & cons of using the GLOs,
& why I moved to explore creative methods of evaluation using film &
accommodating a range of learning styles.
GLOs have been developed by the Museums and Libraries Association, (MLA), and
are being used in England in visual arts, museums and heritage settings.
Several pilot projects using Inspiring Learning for All and GLOs have taken
place in Scotland and this seminar responded to interest in the visual arts
sector in Scotland to explore this and other evaluation frameworks further.
Resources
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for key questions raised at the seminar and useful references to help answer
them.
Speakers Biographies
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find out more about speakers Emily Pringle, Sarah Saunders and Annie Bicknell.
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