Description
| Product ID: | 9781032250571 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Flourishing in Museums |
| Subtitle: | Towards a Positive Museology |
| Authors: | Author: Brenda Cowan, Kiersten F. Latham |
| Page Count: | 262 |
| Subjects: | Museology and heritage studies, Museology & heritage studies, History, Cultural studies, Social groups, communities and identities, Economics, Organizational theory and behaviour, Psychotherapy, Humanities, Cultural studies, Social groups, Economics, Organizational theory & behaviour, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Flourishing in Museums presents the Flourishing Museum Framework, an interdisciplinary model for reflection and practice. Illustrated via a diversity of international examples, the framework demonstrates how museums can meaningfully address the many challenges facing the profession. Flourishing in Museums presents the Flourishing Museum Framework, an interdisciplinary model for reflection and practice. Illustrated via a diversity of international examples, the framework demonstrates how museums can meaningfully address the many challenges facing the profession. Including contributions from a wide range of scholar-practitioners working across the arts, humanities, sciences, education, business, and mental health disciplines, the volume uses abundance-thinking and takes a strengths-based appreciative approach to museum purpose, function, and being. The book demonstrates that, even within the most difficult climates, abundance-oriented methods and perspectives can inspire and elicit flourishing in visitors, staff, and communities, thus positioning museums as places where people find meaningful and purposeful work and where visitors find satisfaction, meaning, inspiration, and motivation. Drawing from the disciplines of positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship, contemplative studies, and museum studies, the book is unified and organized into six thematic areas that comprise the Flourishing Museum Framework: courage, transformation, care, optimism, gratitude, and delight. Flourishing in Museums will be essential reading for academics and students working in the museum and heritage fields, as well as the cognate disciplines of arts management and creative industries. It will also be useful to practitioners working in museums and heritage sites around the world. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-19 |
