Professionalizing Practice. A Critical Look at Recent Practice in Museum Education

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable, this is volume 37, Number 2 of the Journal of Museum Education (JME), published in the summer of 2012. This edition includes articles on the recent history of museum education; professionalizing of practice; museum evaluation, rebranding the museum, an examination on technological impacts and the role of the MER.

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1.From the Editors-in-Chief Tina R. Nolan and Cynthia Robinson From the Guest Editors 2.Professionalizing PracticeA Examination of Recent History in Museum Education Briley Rasmussen and Scott Winterrowd Articles3.Professional Organizations and the Professionalizing of PracticeThe Role of MER, EdCom, and the NAEA Museum Education Division, 1969-2002 Elliott Kai-Kee4.Museum EvaluationWhere Have We Been? What Has Changed? And Where Do We Need to Go Next? Marianna Adams5.Innovations in PracticeAn Examination on Technological Impacts in the FieldJim Angus 6.What We Do BestMaking the Case for the Museum Learning in its Own Right Ben Garcia CASE STUDY: Sharing Vision/Transforming Practice Michael Murawski and Ralph Cordova 7.From Insurgency to Re-Branding Museum Education's Long, Strange Trip Ken Yellis