For the rest of us- what is CAA?   And when exactly is this meeting?   It
sounds very interesting, but not sure if it would fit.

Melanie LaBorwit
Education Coordinator
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2401 12th St. Nw
Albuquerque, NM 87104
ph: 505-843-7270 x 3600
fax: 505-724-3596
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www.indianpueblo.org
                   

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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Call for papers

Call for papers: Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) 1.5-hour
professional meeting at CAA in 2009. 

Crosstalk:  The Pedagogy of the Object in the Academy and the in the Museum
Art history has one thing we all share in our pedagogy which is unexamined
but essential-the object. We all agree this is unique and important, and the
scholarly conversation addresses the object from an epistemological
standpoint. But, we rarely discuss the object pedagogically. When we address
pedagogy we almost always center these discussions on writing assignments,
but the pedagogical properties of the object are essentially unexamined and
need exploring. 
The traditional model for looking at pedagogy uses texts instead of objects.
At a minimum we need to think about differences between object- and
text-based pedagogies. What is unique? What is similar? How do we exploit
these differences and similarities? Oddly, art history is behind the curve
in this area: there here is a large developed pedagogy in science education
which may be helpful because it is object-based in ways that composition and
education are usually not. Likewise, museums may be ahead of the academy 
due
to theorizing around object-based-learning.
Museums and the academy need different pedagogical techniques because of
their dissimilar audiences: this creates disparate starting points and
structures of control. The kind of learning sought differs between the
academy and the museum as do the kinds of pedagogical tools that can be
deployed in each situation. However, the museum and the classroom are not so
different that they cannot help each other; there are some goals in common
as well as the object as a primary target of inquiry.
	The study of American art has a history of fruitful scholarly
exchanges between the museum and the academy. We should extend this
conversation to another area vital to the mission of both institutions:
pedagogy. How can we learn from each other as teaching scholars? How does
thinking about teaching and learning vary between the academy and the
museum? What techniques, methods, and strategies have we developed in
isolation from each other that we can share? How do we assess their
effectiveness? This session invites 20-minute papers from the professoriate
as well as museum professionals that address such questions. 

Per CAA guidelines, proposals for papers are due May 9, 2008 and applicants
will be notified no later than June 2, 2008.
Please send proposals to:
Andrea Pappas
Department of Art and Art History
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0264

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