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| Natura: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Lingua: | en |
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2014
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| Accesso online: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1186660 |
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Sommario:
- In Case of Emergency, Break Convention: A Case Study of a Human Library Project in an Art Gallery Clover, Darlene E. Dogus, Fatma Case Studies Art Artists Role Foreign Countries Teaching Methods Dialogs (Language) Stereotypes Portraiture Exhibits Books Gender Differences Learning Activities Risk Participant Characteristics Adult Education The Human Library (HL) is an educational activity that brings together living 'Books' and 'Readers' in one-to-one dialogue to begin to bridge differences, challenge stereotypes and build new understandings. Using a survey, observations and individual interviews our case study explored a HL project organized in collaboration with a portraiture exhibition at a public art gallery in British Columbia as a critical, dialogic space of engagement. Findings showed the majority of Readers and Books as Caucasian, female, and well educated. Some participants were perplexed by the paradox of this activity, and its disconnection from traditional understandings of 'art' and arts institutions. Further, as the HL activity and portraiture exhibition were in different parts of the building, few were able to make the 'identity' connection between the two. Yet the majority of participants saw the HL as an extremely valuable opportunity to call into question problematic notions of the 'other', and to explore gender as well as the role and place of the arts and artists. The majority believed it was a highly appropriate activity for an art gallery and saw real value in this "risky" dialogic approach.