Cultivating Moral Agency: Pedagogies of Museum Ethics (CAA 115th Annual Conference)
New York, NY
Organization: College Art Association
Event: CAA 115th Annual Conference
Ethical questions have become central to museum work, increasingly shaping how institutions acquire, preserve, interpret, and sometimes deaccession collections. Yet discussions around the pedagogy of museum ethics are underdeveloped. This session will convene scholars and practitioners to collaboratively explore best practices for teaching museum ethics across a range of educational contexts.
I invite contributions that consider how educators help students enter ethical conversations and develop their own orientations and convictions. Perspectives may address semester-long courses in museum ethics, focused units embedded within other classes, or museum-based training programs. Relevant topics include repatriation and restitution, provenance research, the care and display of human remains, confronting the legacies of colonization, interpreting sites of tragedy, violence, and/or slavery, or the responsibilities of museums towards descendant and source communities.
Contributors are encouraged to share case studies, assignments, classroom strategies, or institutional partnerships and reflective assessments of successes and tensions encountered in teaching ethical issues. This session aims to foster dialogue across disciplinary and institutional boundaries to move toward shared frameworks for teaching museum ethics that support emerging practitioners in imagining and enacting ethical futures.
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session17958.html
Danielle Raad