Call For Papers > >For a special issue of Museum & Society journal >Museum education today: synergies and innovations in multicultural contexts > >Guest editors Dr Stella Sylaiou & Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti > >We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums & Society >which will explore the current state in museum education theory and >practice. Our rationale begins with the notion that museums can engage >new audiences, trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity >and imagination. In today's multicultural societies, museums need to >explore new synergies with educational institutions and develop >innovative means to address educational challenges in engaging ways. >In addition, information and communications technologies (ICT) as a >burgeoning field of investigation provide to museums a plethora of >tools to share resources and communicate broadly to a wide range of >users. > >The purpose of this special issue is thus two-fold: (a) explore the >synergies developed by museums in order to address the impact of >informal education in multicultural contexts and (b) the ICT >innovations imported in enhancing learning in informal and non-formal >contexts. > >Themes may include -but are not limited- to the following areas: > >* Museum education in multicultural contexts: new research questions >* Community outreach and museum education >* Engaging immigrants through museum education: emerging case studies >Museums and? schools: towards the re-definition of a creative synergy >* Learning by doing through the use of interactive activities >* Experiential-based learning and museum education >* ICT and personalized museum education >* Mobile experiences and museum education >* Gamification and museum education >* Crowdsourcing and museum education >* Virtual and augmented reality and museum education > >Send your abstract of 300 words along with a brief CV in both guest editors: > >Dr Stella Sylaiou (ssylaiou at yahoo.gr) and Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti >(afilipp at yahoo.gr) > >Deadline for abstracts: end of May 2013 > >All accepted abstracts will undergo a double peer-review process. > >The issue is scheduled for publication in November 2014. > >For more information, feel free to contact the guest editors. > > >Brief CVs of guest editors > >Stella SYLAIOU has a B.Sc. in History and Archaeology (AUTh), a M.Sc. >degree in Archaeological Computing (University of Southampton, UK), a >Diploma in Open and Distance Learning (Hellenic Open University), a >M.A. in Museology (AUTh) and a Ph.D. degree from Inter-departmental >Postgraduate Program, Protection, Conservation and Restoration of >Cultural Monuments (AUTh), Greece, part of which was funded by the >Marie Curie Scholarship for the Transfer of Knowledge (Centre of VLSI >and Computer Graphics, University of Sussex, UK). From 2009 till today >she teaches at the Fine Art and Art Sciences Department, University of >Ioannina, Greece, the Visual and Applied Arts Department, University >of Western Macedonia, Greece, the School of Social Sciences (M.Sc. in >Cultural Organisations Management) of the Hellenic Open University, >the Department of Geomatics & Surveying of the Technological >Educational Institute of Serres. She carried out two postdoctoral >researches funded by funded by the Greek State Scholarships and >Research Committee of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. She >participated in eight research projects, she has nine publications in >scientific journals, twenty peer-reviewed articles in conferences. Her >research interests lie in the areas of Cultural Informatics, Digital >Humanities, Museum Education, Cultural Communication, Cultural >Management and Museology. > >Anastasia FILIPPOUPOLITI is a lecturer in pedagogics and museum >education at the Department of Education Sciences in Preschool Age at >the Democritus University of Thrace. She also teaches at the Hellenic >Open University in the postgraduate course of Cultural Organisations >Management. She has obtained a B.A. in Philosophy and History of >Science (University of Athens), and an M.A. and a Ph.D degree in >Museum Studies (both from the University of Leicester, UK). She has >been a post-doctoral researcher in museology at the Austrian Academy >of Sciences. She has worked at the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural >Foundation as the project manager of the EU-funded project The >Environment Museum of Stymfalia. Among her publications is the >two-volume edited book Science Exhibitions: Communication and >Evaluation and Science Exhibitions: Curati?n and Design (Edinburgh: >MuseumsEtc, 2010). Her research interests span the areas of museology, >science communication and museum education with a particular focus on >science and technology museums, science exhibitions and related >educational programmes. > >Best wishes, > > >-- >Stella Sylaiou >Adjunct Lecturer >Hellenic Open University >
