Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
by Julia Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of...
Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic and demographic communities. The volume includes practical discussions of activity types that museums can employ to build relationships with their communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums promotes balanced practices that are visitor-centered while honoring the integrity and powerful storytelling of art objects. Book examples present best practices that move beyond the turning point, where curation and education are engaged...
by Kelsey J. S. Ransick
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Museums and historic sites faced with small budgets and staff can find it intimidating to redesign or create a website from scratch. Concerns over resources make coding and designing (or hiring someone to do so) daunting and expensive. It does not have to be so. Content creation is inescapable when...
Cultural Heritage Care and Management
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
No other book is available that takes into consideration the diverse components of cultural heritage and suggests how these components can best be:
organized and arranged,
cataloged and described,
exhibited,
made accessible,
and preserved and conserved by librarians, archivists, and museum curators.
Cultural...
Engagement and Access
Innovative Approaches for Museums
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Engagement and Access: Innovative Approaches for Museums addresses how museums forge two-way communication and engaged participation through the use of community curation, social media, collaboration, and inquiry-based learning. Such approaches demonstrate how museums serve as thriving, central gathering...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Fostering Empathy through Museums features fifteen case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum of approaches in the way museums are currently employing empathy, a critical skill that is relevant to personal, institutional, economical, and societal...
Leading Change in the Congregation
Spiritual & Organizational Tools for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Many books have been written about leadership and change, but until now none has focused on the kind of change that tears at a community's very fabric. Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle provides a respectful context for understanding change, especially the experiences and resistances that people...
Ministry Greenhouse
Cultivating Environments for Practical Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Known as "the internship guy" at Dallas Theological Seminary where he teaches, George Hillman talks daily with students about God's movement in their lives. The goal of Ministry Greenhouse is to help seminary and Bible college students, their supervisors, and the lay leaders who work with...
Transitional Ministry Today
Successful Strategies for Churches and Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Transitional ministry can be tremendously helpful for congregations in times of change, and yet, to be successful today transitional ministers and churches need to take into account the major changes in the religious landscape. From the decline of mainline churches to the rise of those who don’t...
Choosing Change
How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Humans have been choice-makers since the days when hunter-gatherers had to decide when to hunt and what to gather. Making choices is what humans do. But individuals feel more personal autonomy and power to choose today than ever before in human history. In Choosing Change, author Peter Coutts acknowledges...
Shaping Spiritual Leaders
Supervision and Formation in Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Supervision--the shaping of spiritual leaders--occurs formally and informally in many aspects of congregational life. Every year, thousands of pastors supervise field education students and interns; staff members and lay leaders often supervise committee members or other staff; clergy and lay leaders...
Engage
A Theological Field Education Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Theological field education, in which a ministry student steps out of the classroom and begins practicing with the supervision of a mentor, is a critical part of accredited ministry programs. Engage equips both students and their supervisor-mentors to engage in this important opportunity with energy...
The Hidden Lives of Congregations
Discerning Church Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Faced with crisis, lack of direction, or just plain "stuckness," many congregations and their leaders are content to deal only with surface issues and symptoms—only to discover that the same problems keep recurring, often in different, and more serious, ways. In The Hidden Lives of Congregations,...