Welcome to GEM
GEM is for everyone interested in learning through museums and heritage.
We are based in the UK but have members around the world.
GEM Conference 2011
Thinking Ahead & Staying Afloat
6-8 September 2011, Norwich
How can we think more strategically and plan ahead to ensure we more than stay afloat in the current challenging times?
Reports of this year's annual conference will appear in the next edition
of the Journal of Education at the end of November but read John Reeve's
first impressions of conference
here.
Laying the foundations of heritage education training
John Stevenson, GEM's director, spoke at the ICOM-CECA conference, Zagreb, September 2011 about how GEM has been responding to changes across the heritage sector, and about GEM’s integrated approach to the training of heritage educators. He reflected on heritage education as a profession, and on what we as heritage educators do and how effective we are. He suggested that we needed more research into the effectiveness of the teaching which we do. Download a PDF of the talk (104KB)
Cultural learning is too valuable to lose
John Reeve, GEM Chair
This is not a whinge or special pleading at a time of savage cuts, but a wake-up call about cuts in funding to learning services in museums, galleries and heritage.
These appear to reflect a shift in attitudes to learning and a step
back to earlier assumptions about where learning belongs. Not only
are learning and outreach posts going, but whole departments and
teams. That is even before the full impact of the cuts is felt
nationally and locally.
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