Dialogue can provide the foundation to create new knowledge and understanding. Museums, as they seek to balance authority between themselves and their communities, can foster their understanding of authority while at the same time engaging in the relationship and knowledge-building dialogues provide. Founded on an application of Gordon Pask’s (1976, quoted in Lankes 2007) conversation theory as well as John Kuo Wei Tchen and Liz Ŝevčenko’s (2011) description of the “dialogic museum” and Nina Simon's (2011) "participatory museum," I propose a three-part framework of categories where museums could begin to organize their questions for dialogues between themselves and their communities. The end goal would be conversations that produce meaningful, long-term, and effective solutions to shared authority in the face of past initiatives.
|Keywords:||Representations, Visitors, Knowledge, Authority|
Kent State University, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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