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Encountering the ‘other’: interpreting student experiences of a multi-sensory museum exhibition
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Philipp Schorch, Jessica Walton, Naomi Priest, Yin ParadiesYin ParadiesThe Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive, immersive museum experience. This paper describes a multi-method research project, which included narrative interviews, focus groups and video diaries with 47 Year 11–12 students from three secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and discusses each method's contribution to an overall empirical understanding of the installation's impact on students' experiences. Emerging findings suggest the ways in which the exhibition space supports students to encounter and engage with individual stories and experiences, thus moving beyond an abstract tolerance of cultural diversity by unsettling the self and destabilising stereotyped and prejudiced interpretations of the ‘other’. The paper concludes by discussing the potential for triangulated qualitative approaches to provide rich emic perspectives on multi-sensory exhibitions.
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Journal of intercultural studiesVolume
36Issue
2Pagination
221 - 240Publisher
Taylor and FrancisLocation
Oxford, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0725-6868eISSN
1469-9540Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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