English Chair Naomi Hamer publishes new digital e-book: Curating the Story Museum
Hamer explores representations of childhood and children’s agency in museums and shares importance of Open Access resources
October 22, 2024
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Hamer and her co-researcher, Ann Marie Murnaghan (external link) (external link) , investigate “how current children's museum exhibits focused on childhood texts and cultures present opportunities to negotiate, subvert, and/or reaffirm cultural discourses of childhood, nationalism, gender, race, sexuality, and ability.” Their research, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (external link) (external link) , analyzes the emergence of new technological and multimodal learning tools in museums as a generative potential for youth participation.