This space was created by the Museum Education Roundtable to expand upon the most recent Journal of Museum Education (JME) issue, reflect on member events, and address timely issues that we face in the field of museum work. Read about how to write for our blog here.
Knowledge in Action ™
Annual Letter from the President
This letter has given me the opportunity to pause and reflect on what seminal Black feminist educator, author, and activist bell hooks described as “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” (hooks, 2004, 17), the interlocking systems of oppression that are exposed most clearly during historical and contemporary events involving settler colonialism, genocide, and resource extraction. When our consciousness is raised to these … Read More
MAKE AN IMPACT ON GIVING TUESDAY WITH MER!
We invite you to support the Museum Education Roundtable on Giving Tuesday! Your involvement can make a meaningful impact on the field of museum education, and there are three primary ways you can contribute. Make a Donation Donations to MER support the publication of the Journal of Museum Education (JME) and continued research in the field, encourages advocacy and leadership, … Read More
A Conversation About “In The Unrest of Implication: Museum Education Methods in Atmospheres of Scandalization
Editors Note: Part of our commitment to making the Journal of Museum Education accessible is to provide free access to one article per issue, supported by our partnership with our publisher, Taylor & Francis. For the JME issue 48.3, It’s All Fake, Honestly!, our board selected the article “In the Unrest of Implication: Museum Education Methods in the Atmospheres of … Read More
FY2023 Annual Report Now Available
The Museum Education Roundtable is pleased to share the FY2023 Annual Report. The Board of Directors have worked incredibly hard to follow the organization’s mission of inspiring innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education. The annual review features a letter from FY2023 President, Michelle Dezember, highlights MER’s accomplishments … Read More
Enrich Museum Visitors’ Experience with a Book Club
Regardless of your museum’s curatorial focus, with a little research, your museum can find a book that will interest visitors, stimulate excitement, and grow understanding surrounding your collections—after all, books exist addressing every subject! To ensure your visitors engage with the available reading material, you can gather them in a book club! If you stimulate them in discussions of the … Read More
Framing Praxis – Theory and Practice
Part of our commitment to making the Journal of Museum Education accessible is to provide free access to one article per issue, supported by our partnership with our publisher, Taylor & Francis. For the JME issue 48.2, Learning Connections, our board selected the article “Traditional or Contemporary Art? A Study of Educational Approaches to Children in Two Chinese Art Museums” … Read More
Meeting the Directors: Adria Brown
MER would like to spend some time celebrating the wonderful people that we have the opportunity to work with. We asked each director to answer a series of questions to allow us to get to know them better. Adria Brown (she/her/hers) is the Associate Educator, Docent Program and Gallery Teaching at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She is a community … Read More
Meeting the Directors: Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto
MER would like to spend some time celebrating the wonderful people that we have the opportunity to work with. We asked each director to answer a series of questions to allow us to get to know them better. Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto (she/her/ella) is the Project Manager for Latinos in Heritage Conservation. Previously, she served as the Community and Bilingual Program … Read More