Anita Sinner is a professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She works with stories as pedagogic pivots and creative geographies in education.Boyd White is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests are in philosophy and art education, focusing on aesthetics and art criticism.Patricia Osler is a Concordia Public Scholar and doctoral candidate in Art Education with Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Art. Her research focuses on the neuroscience of creativity, art-as-research and museum education.

• Land AcknowledgmentAcknowledgementA Prelude to Art Education in Canadian Museums – Anita Sinner, Boyd White and Patricia OslerIntroduction – Richard LachapellePart 1: Aesthetic Relations 1. Setting the Objects Free: Experimenting with Alternative Narratives and Unheard Voices at the Aga Khan Museum – Ulrike Al-Khamis2. Immanence and Being with Contemporary Art – Fiona Blaikie3. Defining Artful Literacies: Adolescent Affects, Belonging and Cross-sectorial Creativity – Amélie Lemieux and Emma Beaton4. Artful Moments: A Framework for Engagement and Social Connection – Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Janis Humphrey and Maureen Montemuro5. Sensory Learning in Cultural Institutions: Sensory Experience, Aesthetic Sensibility and Intercultural Learning in Garden Settings – David Bell6. The Poetry of Travelling Concepts: A Movement-Based Pedagogy – Marie-Hélène LemairePart 2: Learning Relations 7. Unpacking the Canon Within: Using Phenomenological Art Inquiry to Decolonize – Shannon Leddy8. Starvation Plates: A Fine Art Example of Educational Interpretation Design – Richard Lachapelle9. Towards Decolonization and Indigenization of Historical Knowledge and Practices at University: A Collaboration between a History Museum and an Undergraduate History Course – Emmy Côté10. The Pedagogic Potential of Interpretive Spaces in Art Exhibits: Examples from the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery – Agnieszka Chalas and Stephen Lavigne11. Arts Inclusion: The Joy of Collaborative Community Art Programmes – Dale Sheppard12. Advancing Inclusion as Social Justice: When Museums Become Spaces of Belonging That Support Diverse Learning Experiences – Darla Fortune13. Sharing the Museum: Rethinking Cultural Mediation and Museum Education – Anik Meunier and Jason Luckerhoff14. Connecting to the Museum Experience: The Beauty of Human Complexity in Action – Anne Marie ÉmondPart 3: Site Relations 15. Researching and Reclaiming Edmonton’s Queer History: Que(e)rying Curatorial and Archival Practice Through a Community-Based Public Art Exhibition – Michelle Lavoie and Kristopher Wells16. What Can a University Gallery Do? – Pauline Sameshima17. Clay in the Museum: Connecting Through Ceramics – Sequoia Miller, Farrukh Rafiq and Nahed Mansour18. Augmented Reality and Museum Education: Rethinking Interactive Learning Experiences in Museums – Quincy Qingwen Wang, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Paula MacDowell19. The Promise of New Museum Models in a Moment of Social Reckoning – Paola Poletto and Devyani Saltzman20. Visiting the Dalton Trail Gallery: Performing Place-Making, Sharing Locality – Nicole BaubergerBiographies Index

'This is an excellent overview of recent trends in Canadian museums to reinvent themselves and their audiences through experiential and participatory ways. Museum educators, as well as educators in schools or postsecondary institutions, or anyone who is interested in introducing art objects and exhibitions to others in inclusive ways, will benefit from learning a variety of ways to support learning and meaningful engagement in interpretation. The book will also appeal to researchers interested in theoretical perspectives involved in interpretation. It is an important contribution to thinking about the role of interpretation in the arts and the many ways that art offers engagement with issues of importance without hindering the exchange of views.'