Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

Master of Museum Education - MMEd MED3 Cohort Program

Online (80%) | Face-to-Face: UBC Vancouver/Off-Campus (20%)

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED3

begins September 2014

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

History | MMEd | Master of Museum Education State of the field – Professional status of museum educator.

Lack of graduate programs that service the profession.

Existing grad program in the field focus on museum studies - But, not

in Museum Education.

2007 – program development started with financial support from UBC with broad consultation with museum community in BC.

Launch of Pilot Program in Sept 2010 (MEd – Focus on Museum Education) to test and refine the program.

Ministry of Education Approval of new MMEd degree in August 2011.

Launch of new MMEd Program in September 2012. September 2014 will the 4th intake of the Program.

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

Program Summary

Location | UBC, Vancouver campus

Start Date | September, 2014

Program Length | Two-years + one Term, Part-time

Modality (Mixed) | Online (80%) | Face-to-Face (20%)

Designed For | Currently practicing museum professionals

Teachers

Community Educators, and

Those seeking a career in Museum Education

Application Deadline | April 14, 2014

Open to Educators from all Disciplines | Arts, Sciences, History, First Nations, etc.

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

Program Objectives

• Explore and reconceptualize teaching and learning in non-classroom settings, and in particular, museums.

• Bring together museum educators, community-based educators and classroom teachers, and develop a professional network of educators to support and challenge your current and future practice

• Enhance opportunities for museum professionals and community

educators to further their thinking about the potential of museums as sites of learning.

• Provide graduate level qualification for those currently working or seeking to work as educators in informal settings and museums.

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

Program Outcomes

• Critically analyze dominant and alternative theories and discourses of learning and teaching in informal settings.

• Identify the influences of multiple perspectives (i.e., Local and International) in facilitating learning experiences in/within museums and learning communities.

• Develop learning opportunities to integrate learning within classrooms, and learning in informal settings such as museums and other informal learning sites.

• Develop tools to implement and sustain educational programs outside the traditional classroom, and analyze different approaches to teaching and program development.

• Develop skills and knowledge to understand and address the increasing complexities of issues facing informal learning settings.

Dr. Lisa McIntosh, PhD. Director of Learning at the HR MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her doctoral research focused on museum educators in their role as ‘teacher educators’ as they work with staff and volunteers in their quest to become museum educators. Lisa has more than 20 years working in museums as an educator, with experience in educational program development, interpretation, interpretive writing and exhibits, and staff development.

Teaching in

Museums

Dr. Alex F. de Cosson, Ph.D. is an a/r/tographer who has worked as a professional sculptor exhibiting nationally and internationally for over twenty-five years. instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy and MET Programs. Alex passionately believes that art and art making, in the broadest possible terms, are central to a curriculum of well-being in the classroom and the Museum. His research interests are centered within arts-based, auto-biographical ways of knowing.

Curriculum

Issues and

Theories in

Museums

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Program Structure

Practice Research Theory

Research Practice

Field Experience

Pedagogy Learning Theory

Teaching Theory

Curriculum Theory

Programming Theory

Specialization Discipline Focus, and

Capstone Experience

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

Program Schedule (Schedule may change)

Year 1 (September, 2014 to August, 2015)

EDCP 565 Teaching in Museums | (Pedagogy in Museums) EDCP 558 Learning in Informal Environments | (Informal Learning Theory) EDCP 567 Curriculum Issues and Theories in Museums | (Curriculum Theory in Museum Education) Elective A and/or B | Disciple Specialization

See: http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/mmed-master-of-museum-education-med3/

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

Program Schedule

Year 2 (September, 2015 to August, 2016) EDCP 585 Education Programing in Museums | (Programing Theory) EDUC 500 Research Methodology in Education | (Visitor Research in Museums) ANTH 518 Museum Methods | (Museum Practice) – May 2016: on-campus Vancouver.

Elective B (if not completed in year 1) | Disciple Specialization See: http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/mmed-master-of-museum-education-med3/

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

Program Schedule 2016 Summer terms (May to August) 2016 Summer 2a EDCP 598 Field Experience | (Museum Practicum) 2016 Summer 2b EDCP 590 Graduating Paper | (Program Capstone)

Professional Development and Community Engagement (PDCE)

MMEd | Master of Museum Education

PROGRAM INFORMATION CONTACT David Anderson Cohort Advisor, UBC Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy 604-822-2086 david.anderson@ubc.ca