Call For Papers
For a special issue of Museum & Societyjournal

Museum education today:
synergies and innovations in multicultural contexts

Guest editors Dr Stella Sylaiou & Dr Anastasia
Filippoupoliti

We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums
& Society which will explore the current state in museum education theory
and practice. Our rationale begins with the motion that museums can engage new
audiences, trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity and
imagination. In today’s multicultural societies, museums need to explore new
synergies with educational institutions and develop innovative means to address
educational challenges in engaging ways. In addition, information and
communications technologies ICT) as a burgeoning field of investigation provide
to museums a plethora of tools to share resources and communicate broadly to a
wide range of users.

The purpose of this special issue is thus two-fold: (a)
explore the synergies developed by museums in order to address the impact of informal
education in multicultural contexts and (b) the ICT innovations imported in
enhancing learning in informal and non-formal contexts.

Themes may include -but are not limited- to the following
areas:

• Museum education in multicultural contexts: new research
questions
• Community outreach and museum education
• Engaging immigrants through museum education: emerging
case studies
• Museums and schools: towards the re-definition of a
creative synergy
• Learning by doing through the use of interactive
activities
• Experiential-based learning and museum education

• ICT and personalized museum education
• Mobile experiences and museum education
• Gamification and museum education
• Crowdsourcing and museum education
• Virtual and augmented reality and museum education

Send your abstract of
300 words along with a brief CV in both guest editors:
Dr Stella Sylaiou ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Anastasia
Filippoupoliti ([log in to unmask])
Deadline for abstracts: May 31st, 2013
All accepted abstracts will undergo a double peer-review
process.  The issue is scheduled for publication in November 2014.  For more information, feel free to contact the guest
editors.
Brief CVs of guest editors
Stella SYLAIOUhas a B.Sc. in
History and Archaeology (AUTh), a M.Sc. degree in Archaeological Computing
(University of Southampton, UK), a Diploma in Open and Distance Learning
(Hellenic Open University), a M.A. in Museology (AUTh) and a Ph.D. degree from
Inter-departmental Postgraduate Program, Protection, Conservation and
Restoration of Cultural Monuments (AUTh), Greece, part of which was funded by
the Marie Curie Scholarship for the Transfer of Knowledge (Centre of VLSI and
Computer Graphics, University of Sussex, UK). From 2009 till today she teaches
at the Fine Art and Art Sciences Department, University of Ioannina, Greece,
the Visual and Applied Arts Department, University of Western Macedonia,
Greece,the School of Social Sciences (M.Sc. in
Cultural Organisations Management) of the Hellenic Open University, the
Department of Geomatics &
Surveying of the Technological Educational Institute of Serres. She carried
out two postdoctoral researches funded by funded by the Greek State
Scholarships and Research Committee of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. She
participated in eight research projects, she has nine publications in
scientific journals, twenty peer-reviewed articles in conferences. Her research
interests lie in the areas of Cultural Informatics, Digital Humanities, Museum
Education, Cultural Communication, Cultural Management and Museology.  
Anastasia
FILIPPOUPOLITIis a lecturer in pedagogics and museum education at the Department of
Education Sciences in Preschool Age at the Democritus University of Thrace. She
also teaches at the Hellenic Open University in the postgraduate course of Cultural Organisations Management.She has obtained a B.A. in
Philosophy and History of Science (University of Athens), and an M.A. and a
Ph.D degree in Museum Studies (both from the University of Leicester, UK). She has been a
post-doctoral researcher in museology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has worked at the Piraeus Bank
Group Cultural Foundation as the project manager of the EU-funded project The
Environment Museum of Stymfalia. Among her
publications is the two-volume edited book Science Exhibitions: Communication
and Evaluation and Science Exhibitions: Curatiοn and Design (Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc, 2010). Her research interests span the
areas of museology, science communication and museum education with a
particular focus on science and technology museums, science exhibitions and
related educational programmes.

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