Teaching

A (bad) picture of one of the digital catalog information entries for an item belonging to the grade 7 history collection before I updated. Property of the ROM Learning Dept.

With my internship at the Royal Ontario Museum almost over, I want to reflect on some things I’ve noticed about museum education, specifically, teaching humanities classes to children. While I have never gotten to teach a class, I have seen them happening, have helped set them up and put them away, and have helped create information for teaching the curriculum. 

Written by: Shawna Quigley
Date posted: March 11, 2019

How do you acknowledge the human experience of genocide through a small collection of objects and photos without reducing their stories to statistics and dates? These simple but effective steps can help create a safe space for everyone to engage with loaded objects and photos in a way that reveals the multiplicity of perspectives and histories connected to each and every item.

Written by: Shawna Quigley
Date Posted: October 15, 2018