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De-Constructing Cabinets of Curiosity

Learning to Think Historically in Community History Museums

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Community history museums provide powerful sites for learning about the past. Although those of us actively involved in museum education intuitively know this, in Canada we now have figures from the recently published national survey, Canadians and their pasts (Conrad et al., 2013), to support such claims. Their findings show that, currently, the largest proportion of adult Canadians (30%) rate museums most highly, as the single most trustworthy source of historical knowledge.

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    Cynthia Wallace-Casey

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    Mary L. Blatherwick

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Wallace-Casey, C. (2017). De-Constructing Cabinets of Curiosity. In: Cummings, J.B., Blatherwick, M.L. (eds) Creative Dimensions of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-047-9_19

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