Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education

by Helen J. Chatterjee, Leonie Hannan

Overview

The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education. Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering the curriculum, the positive benefits of ’active’ and ’experiential learning’ are being recognised in universities at both a strategic level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts, specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge students’ engagement with their subject, so transformational learning can take place. This unique book presents the first comprehensive exploration of ’object-based learning’ as a pedagogy for higher education in a broad context. An international group of authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value of using collections in this context and considering the relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning as a teaching strategy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472446152
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2015
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Helen J. Chatterjee is a Senior Lecturer in Biology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences and Head of Research and Teaching in UCL Public and Cultural Engagement at University College London, UK. Leonie Hannan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University, Belfast. For four years, between 2011 and 2015, she was a Teaching Fellow in Object-Based Learning at University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction An Introduction to Object-Based Learning and Multisensory Engagement, Helen J.Chatterjee, LeonieHannan, LindaThomson; Part I The Pedagogical Value of Object-Based Learning; Chapter 1 Engaging Learners through Engaging Designs that Enrich and Energise Learning and Teaching, KirstenHardie; Chapter 2 The Power of Concrete Experience, JudyWillcocks; Chapter 3 Talking about Things, PamMeecham; Chapter 4 Engaging the Past, AnneTiballi; Part II Object-Based Learning Environments and Contexts; Chapter 5 The Value of Object-Based Learning within and between Higher Education Disciplines, ArabellaSharp, LindaThomson, Helen J.Chatterjee, LeonieHannan; Chapter 6 Three Cases of Using Object-Based Learning with University Students, Cheung-OnTam; Chapter 7 Rummaging as a Strategy for Creative Thinking and Imaginative Engagement in Higher Education, AlexandraWoodall; Part III Object-Based Learning, Museum Education and Creative Practice; Chapter 8 Co-developing a Scaffolding Structure for Doctoral Collections-Based Research at the University of Reading, KateArnold-Forster, RebeccaReynolds, RhianeddSmith; Chapter 9 From Cultural to Socio-economic Capital, AntonellaPoce, AnnalisaIovine; Chapter 10 Student Development through Arts and Cultural Partnerships, StanAltman; Chapter 11 Immersive and Somatic Learning, EmilyMorrison;

Editorial Reviews

"Helen Chatterjee and Leonie Hannan’s edited volume, Engaging the Senses: Object-based Learning in Higher Education, is an important step towards both explaining and exploring the myriad ways in which museums and higher education can, and often do, work together."

- Sarah M. Hatcher in Museum Anthropology Review

’Although university museums historically have been and still are a major component of the museum field, there has been scarce literature on how university students can benefit from interaction with museum objects. This volume goes a long way towards rectifying this gap. The individual chapters cover a wide range of university-museum collaborations, with the individual descriptions embedded in an understanding of modern educational theory.’ George E. Hein, Lesley University, USA ’How can objects in museums and elsewhere be of value in higher education? This book is an invaluable, much needed extension of our understandings of object-centred learning into the tertiary level. Its thoughtful case studies demonstrate the role of objects - of myriad kinds - and multisensory, experiential engagements with them, in inspiring and enabling university students.’ Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, UK

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