Third Space Literacies and Museum Learning

Volume: Part F652

Pages: 137-151

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89521-0_7

Abstract:

Scholarly interest is growing in the non-formal pedagogic experiences which museums can enable. This includes attention to how museums can be situated in the networked ecology of learning spaces as well as the various new literacy repertoires which museum visitors practice to engage with these experiences. This can resonate with scholarly attention to curation as a new literacy practice, intersecting with the long-standing practice of museum curation as storytelling and a form of narratological secondary-encoding of that which is curated, whereby museums are understood to be third spaces. This chapter offers a theoretical overview of third space literacies and an application of this conceptual framing to curational practices in physical museum spaces, before applying these ideas to a case study on the Museum of Homelessness, in comparison with four other museums. In this analysis, the paradoxical tensions inherent to space and intentionality are further explored with an interest in how we experience such tensions in transformative ways.

Source: Scopus

Third Space Literacies and Museum Learning

Authors: McDougall, J.

Editors: Sabiescu, A., Calvi, A. and Vermeeren, A.

Publisher: Springer

Source: Manual