Objects as curriculum workshop
Objects as curriculum workshop
The Objects as Curriculum workshop is part of a new program of teaching and research at the UofL focused on connecting stranded Blackfoot objects in British museums with their home people and culture by leveraging digital tools and techniques. The name for the workshop comes from a story of the late Frank Weasel Head talking to curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University: when he was asked why Blackfoot war shirts from the 19th Century should come back to Southern Alberta, he said, “because these shirts are our curriculum.” The historical objects are crucial for teaching the next generations about Blackfoot knowledge and about art-making techniques because they are the means by which teaching occurs. Our goal is that by working with objects in this way we can inform art instruction on campus, museum studies programs, historical research, field work in the sciences, and Indigenous studies across the disciplinary divides on campus.
Dawson, Ian
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Minkin, Louisa
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20 January 2019
Dawson, Ian
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Minkin, Louisa
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Dawson, Ian and Minkin, Louisa
(2019)
Objects as curriculum workshop.
Abstract
The Objects as Curriculum workshop is part of a new program of teaching and research at the UofL focused on connecting stranded Blackfoot objects in British museums with their home people and culture by leveraging digital tools and techniques. The name for the workshop comes from a story of the late Frank Weasel Head talking to curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University: when he was asked why Blackfoot war shirts from the 19th Century should come back to Southern Alberta, he said, “because these shirts are our curriculum.” The historical objects are crucial for teaching the next generations about Blackfoot knowledge and about art-making techniques because they are the means by which teaching occurs. Our goal is that by working with objects in this way we can inform art instruction on campus, museum studies programs, historical research, field work in the sciences, and Indigenous studies across the disciplinary divides on campus.
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Published date: 20 January 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/469732
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