Musei, pubblici e didattiche. La didattica museale tra sperimentalismo, modelli teorici e proposte operative

The museums are institutions that participate in the structuring of the social fabric and preserving cultural heritage and the various forms of helping to develop a training designed to give citizens of those skills necessary to become actors is involved in a national culture, the foundation of how to value of communities and democratic citizenship. This volume highlights the dual action that the cultural property, as an end and as a means, can play, if effectively used in education, to enable all individuals to access the symbolic repertoire of culture and enhance the profiles cultural population. For this reason the conditions of usability and good reception, and the experience that results, should be the subject of specific attention from educational research, called to explore ways through which you can switch between episodic and use only suggestive of a qualitatively valuable in terms of learning. The aim of the book is to show what strategies should be developed in the action of teaching mediation to overcome the impasse of access "elitist" cultural heritage, which is still restricted to particular categories of citizens, to go towards a generalized use but quality that will take that process of cultural democratization aimed at achieving a conscious use of the property directed to durable purchases. In particular, it highlighted the role of education and practice of museum education in helping individuals to build a habit to enjoy the museums and to make positive experiences of access to multiple forms and types of property and the existing museum meanings they carry.