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Date: | Fri, 6 Jan 1995 13:36:48 -0800 |
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Re: Matthew A. White's proposal of learning on the job:
I recently posted a message on the Archives list about current education
practices in archival education. In that message I suggested that the
"leave it for graduate school" approach to archival training squeezed
into a two-year programme, left much to be learned. Here, as I had
proposed in that message, I feel very strongly that both archival and
museum studies should begin in the very first year of college and
continue through graduate school. There is quite a bit of information
and hands-on education that could occur during that six-year period that
would not be possible in the present system.
I don't know all the historic reasons such education is offered largely
at the graduate level, but I would be willing to venture that it is from
an elitist root. Be that as it may, the present circumstances would
appear to demand a re-thinking for the rationale behind a largely
graduate only education in archival and museum topics.
It is important to understand that we are in a changing world of museum
philosophies and practices. Just the place of electronic technologies
and community interaction are enough to easily fill a two-year programme,
but add to that all the "missed" education and, indeed, there can be
those who would like more from their education; and institutions that
demand more of recent graduates.
A partial, biased, and ignorant opinion expressed by:
Dave Wells
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