New thematic issue of University Museums and Collections Journal; issue 16 (3): STEM in the Art Museum: Innovative Pedagogies for the 21st-Century University.
This issue is edited by Liliana Milkova from Yale University Art Gallery and Jodi Kovach from The Gund, Kenyon College, USA. This is the first issue of the journal that has been entirely guest edited. Liliana and Jodi have put together an excellent compilation of interesting articles that break new ground in understanding the pedagogy of the university art museum.
STEM in the Art Museum: Innovative Pedagogies for the 21st-Century University is the first publication of its kind on integrating art-based pedagogies in STEM education at the university level, and includes contributions from scholars in museum education and STEM disciplines at colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Contributors include: Liliana Milkova, Jodi Kovach, Jennifer McMahon, Danielle Raad, Gina Marie Hurley, Jim Harris, Ashley Moyse, Gina Hadley, Rachel Lane, Sally Frampton, Ariel Dempsey, Joshua Hordern, Kate Saunders, Gabriele C. De Luca, Bahram Moasser, Sarah C. Petersen, Hannah Wirta Kinney, Cynthia Taylor, Joey Orr, Daniel Tapia Takaki, Jennifer T. Cholnoky, Meg Urry, Sydney Skelton Simon, Spencer Smith, Ellen M. Alvord and Roksana Filipowska.
The volume will be a useful resource for museum educators both within and outside of the higher education setting. It includes case studies where the art museum has been used for pedagogy in biology, computer science, neuroscience, geology, chemistry, physics and medicine.
STEM in the Art Museum can be accessed here: http://umac.icom.museum/release-of-umacj-163-stem-in-the-art-museum-innovative-pedagogies-for-the-21st-century-university/. As with all issues of the UMAC Journal it is available freely online and published under a Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 4.0.