Granì (Aug 2016)
Informal adult education and museum andragogics in the context of the history of modern museums in Ukraine (review historiography)
Abstract
The author of the article set the goal to analyse the published academic/ scientific, popular scientific publications and the published results of Ukrainian museums’ practical developments for 1990-2010s, which in total can be described as a museum andragogics or informal adult education by museum means. Initially, it was found that despite the growing interest in these kinds of museum activities, the available research body is not systematized. It was found that brief reviews of the problem’s historiography are present mostly in preambles of museology, pedagogy, museums history articles. They are often related to the topic indirectly. Attempts to study purposefully the subject are now rare, although their aim is to summarize the existing Ukrainian experience. It was determined that, although it is impossible now to determine the museum andragogics as a separate sphere of knowledge on the basis of a small number of published investigations of Ukrainian specialists. These investigations are reflecting the national museums and available foreign publications’ experience in this sphere (translated into Ukrainian or published in Russian). But the formation of the andragogics in Ukraine is actual and necessary on the way towards the integration into the global cultural space. Summarizing the material the conclusion was made that the museum andragogics and non-formal adult education in museums are promising areas of scientific knowledge. A contribution of the museum’s and other Ukrainian connected sectors professionals in the process by years 2012-13 is notable both at the level of the foreign experience’s study and the reflection in practice, research, scientific and popular publications. However, until now there was no such activity surge, as it happened in the spheres of museum marketing or sociology. Such forms of activity as «Workshop», «Summer school», public lecture are not known and used enough by domestic museums, and therefore by the audience. There is no clear understanding of the problem’s thesaurus. The participation in the international action «Days of Adult Education» is minimal, therefore the museums still cannot be called adult education providers. However, it is still possible to identify and to characterize certain significant stages of the formation of the andragogics, informal museums adult education, historiography’s indexes names, draft law documents and practice activity centres’ compilation. There exists the mutual dependence and connection between museum andragogics, which is in the process of institutionalization, and pedagogy, sociology and other sciences about man, its interdisciplinary nature.
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