Includes bibliographical references and index.

Policy, pedagogies and possibilities. -- Introduction / Catherine Speight, Anne Boddington and Jos Boys -- Strategic alliances, knowledge exchange and opportunities. -- Learning activities, learning outcomes and learning theory / Stephen Brown -- Internships in museum studies: learning at the interface / Elizabeth A. Beckmann -- Understanding the distributed museum : mapping the spaces of museology in contemporary culture / Susana Smith Bautista and Anne Balsamo -- Learning at the interface : the museum as public laboratory / Richard Watermeyer -- Curating, collecting and creative practices. -- Keeping good company: art schools and museums / Sarah Ganz Blythe -- Curating emerging design practice / Gareth Williams -- Artist-led curatorial practice : mediating knowledge, experience and opinion / Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen -- Expectations, assumptions and obstructions. -- "Museums and galleries? No thanks, not for me" : -- A critical review of attitudes to museum and gallery visits among university students on an education degree programme / Carrie Winstanley -- Tales from the coalface / Leanne Manfredi and Rebecca Reynolds -- Enhancing observational skills : a case study : collaboration between a University art museum and its medical school / Linda K. Friedlaender, M.S -- Object based learning : a powerful pedagogy for higher education / Leonie Hannan, Rosalind Duhs, Helen Chatterjee -- Conclusion : Opportunities for the future / Jos Boys, Anne Boddington and Catherine Speight.

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