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Facilitating the transition from academia to the
workplace
Theano Moussouri, Archaeology
UCL Colloquium, 23/06/09
Museum Studies
• Taught courses:• Museum communication• Collections management & care • Museum management• Digitization & museums• Collections curatorship • Museum history & theory
• Seminars, field trips & placement
Communication course: content
• Educational & social role of museums
• Conceptualizing & studying audiences
• Communication theories
• Interpretation theories
• Learning theories
• Basic & applied visitor research skills
• Exhibition project
Communication course: approach
• Self-directed and managed learning
• Scaffolding individual & group learning
• Creating common understanding
Scaffolding steps I
1. Workshop-like sessions, group presentations, reading groups => bringing student knowledge into public view
2. Guest speakers & field trips => reference to common experience
Scaffolding steps II
3. Exhibition project team & panel meetings:
– ‘thinking in groups’, monitoring changes in project & own conceptions
– sharing sense of purpose with tutors & clients
Exhibition project I
• Professional development programme
• Supportive environment
• Domain-specific knowledge & practice
Exhibition project II
• Understanding of context within which people work
• Locally relevant • Professional
judgment to know when knowledge & techniques should be applied