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Encountering Pedagogy at the National Museum of the American Indian

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Writing as the director of the Smithsonian Institution at a time when museums defined academic disciplines through their research agendas, Goode’s comment highlights two prevalent purposes of today’s museum. As places where knowledge is created through object displays, text panels and over-arching narratives, the public museum also seeks to serve society as a public pedagogical space.

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Segall, A., Trofanenko, B. (2014). Encountering Pedagogy at the National Museum of the American Indian. In: Trofanenko, B., Segall, A. (eds) Beyond Pedagogy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-632-5_5

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