Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Darlene E. Clover , Kathy Sanford , Lorraine Bell and Kay Johnson -- Shut Up and Be Quiet! / Robin S. Grenier and Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson -- St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art / Clare Gray -- Adult Education and Radical Museology / Jean Barr -- Art and Commitment: Galleries without Walls / Paul Stewart -- The Victoria and Albert Museum / Avner Segall and Brenda Trofanenko -- Knowing Their Place / Darlene E. Clover and Kathy Sanford -- Daughters of Joy? / Micki Voelkel and Shelli Henehan -- Re-Educating the Educators / Rose M. Lewis and Rachel Clarke -- Contemporary Art as Pedagogical Challenge / Emília Ferreira -- Performing and Activating / Jennifer Van de Pol -- Decolonising Museum Pedagogies / Kay Johnson -- Formally Informal / Lisa R. Merriweather , Heather Coffey and Paul G. Fitchett -- Exhibiting Dark Heritage / Jennifer Thivierge -- From Narration to Poïesis / Laura Formenti and Alessia Vitale -- Muża / Sandro Debono -- Casting Light and Shadow / Darlene E. Clover and Emily Stone -- The Opportunities and Risks of Community Docent Training as Adult Learning / Alyssa Greenberg -- Museum Hacking as Adult Education / Bruno de Oliveira Jayme , Kim Gough , Kathy Sanford , David Monk , Kristin Mimick and Chris O’Connor -- Adult Education in Art Galleries / Helene Illeris -- QR Codes / Bryan L. Smith -- Index / Darlene E. Clover , Kathy Sanford , Lorraine Bell and Kay Johnson.

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This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity, meaning making and interpretation, knowledge, authority, prescription, innovation, and creativity. The contributors are a combination of scholars, professors, graduate students, heritage and cultural adult educators, artists, curators and researchers from Canada, United States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Denmark, Portugal, Italy and Malta. Collectively, they challenge us to think about the dialectics of passivity and engagement, didactics and learning, gender neutrality and radicality, and neutrality and risk-taking amongst a collage of artworks and artefacts, poetry and installations, collections and exhibits, illusion and reality, curatorial practice and learning, argument and narrative, and struggle and possibility that define and shape modern day art and culture institutions. The chapters, set amongst the discursive politics of neoliberalism and patriarchy, racism and religious intolerance, institutional neutrality and tradition, capitalism and neo-colonialism, ecological devastation and social injustice, take up the spirit and ideals of the radical and feminist traditions of adult education and their emphases on cultural participation and knowledge democracy, agency and empowerment, justice and equity, intellectual growth and transformation, critical social and self reflection, activism and risk-taking, and a fundamental belief in the power of art, dialogue, reflection, ideological and social critique and imaginative learning.