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Hi to all of you.

I've been invited to give on-site presentation on "Reimagining Museum Education Programs for a Rapidly Evolving World" for an international conference to be held in India by Dept of  Archaeology, Museums and Archives, Gov't of Chhatisgarh, India (May 16 thru' 18). During the span of 16 years, I've worked as a volunteer in many prestigious museums in the United States, including American Museum of Natural History, NY, California Academy of Sciences and Asian Art Museum (both in San Francisco). My presentation will certainly emphasis my own thoughts on "Reimagining Museum Education Programs for a Rapidly Evolving World."

May I appeal to all the members of our Open Forum to reply me on our Open Forum platform, if some of you have already held a conference/seminar/workshop/colloquium or if this topic is in the Curriculum of Museum Studies in some universities in  North America? My noble intention is to incorporate such information while mention in my presentation the previous work/projects accomplished.

With regards,

Nandan Shastri

(nandan.shastri@gmail.com)

Hi Nandan,

Congratulations! You certainly have a rich background of knowledge and experience to contribute to Dept of  Archaeology, Museums and Archives conference in India. Although the book chapter I am attaching is dated 2010, I still thought you may find it of interest. The title is "The Museum as Laboratory for Re-imagining a Sustainable Future" given your presentation title! It was published in a series volume on Appreciative Intelligence for an audience of business academics. It is a qualitative report on an experiment of assigning undergraduates in my non-Western Art History Survey--India, China, Japan--a first person museum essay in place of the traditional art history research paper with surprising results.

Please do post here afterwards and let us how it went.

All the best,

Terri McNichol

tmcnichol@renassociates.com

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