Engaging the senses: Object-based learning in higher education

Helen J. Chatterjee, Leonie Hannan

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18 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education. Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering the curriculum, the positive benefits of ‘active’ and ‘experiential learning’ are being recognised in universities at both a strategic level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts, specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge students’ engagement with their subject, so transformational learning can take place. This unique book presents the first comprehensive exploration of ‘object-based learning’ as a pedagogy for higher education in a broad context. An international group of authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value of using collections in this context and considering the relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning as a teaching strategy.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Number of pages230
ISBN (Electronic)9781317143413
ISBN (Print)9781472446152
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Jan 2016

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Helen J. Chatterjee and Leonie Hannan 2015.

Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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