The salience of liminal spaces of learning: assembling affects, bodies and objects at the museum
In this article, I work toward producing understandings of learning as liminal and as located in a liminal space. Framed as learning through the <i>in-between</i>, I engage with the concept of liminality as a way of unravelling the complexity of the practice of learning at the museum. De...
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| description | In this article, I work toward producing understandings of
learning as liminal and as located in a liminal space. Framed as learning
through the <i>in-between</i>, I engage with the concept of liminality as a way of
unravelling the complexity of the practice of learning at the museum.
Deploying data from video-based case studies of 40 school students'
engagements with learning over the course of a visit to Museum Victoria,
Australia, and utilising an analytic of assemblage, I map the spatial
dynamics of learning in action. From analyses undertaken, it is argued that
liminal spaces of learning open up in museum education and have a special
salience. They have the potential to <q>jump start</q> the learner out of a
comfortable state of mind and into a state of productive uncertainty. They
also serve as a location for potential critique. More broadly, these
analyses direct attention to the centrality of material practice and agency
to liminality and liminal learning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4ab4b5b4492f4fcdb67a16291bd031302022-12-22T03:22:07ZdeuCopernicus PublicationsGeographica Helvetica0016-73122194-87982017-03-0172110911810.5194/gh-72-109-2017The salience of liminal spaces of learning: assembling affects, bodies and objects at the museumD. Mulcahy0Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, AustraliaIn this article, I work toward producing understandings of learning as liminal and as located in a liminal space. Framed as learning through the <i>in-between</i>, I engage with the concept of liminality as a way of unravelling the complexity of the practice of learning at the museum. Deploying data from video-based case studies of 40 school students' engagements with learning over the course of a visit to Museum Victoria, Australia, and utilising an analytic of assemblage, I map the spatial dynamics of learning in action. From analyses undertaken, it is argued that liminal spaces of learning open up in museum education and have a special salience. They have the potential to <q>jump start</q> the learner out of a comfortable state of mind and into a state of productive uncertainty. They also serve as a location for potential critique. More broadly, these analyses direct attention to the centrality of material practice and agency to liminality and liminal learning.http://www.geogr-helv.net/72/109/2017/gh-72-109-2017.pdf |
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