Journal Building Relationships Through Communities of Practice: Museums and Indigenous People

Citation: Kelly, L., Carolyn Cook and Gordon P.. 2006. Building Relationships Through Communities of Practice: Museums and Indigenous People. Curator. 49(2). 217-234.

Abstract:

This paper explores the theory of “communities of practice” and how the ideas contained in it could be applied to museums, by demonstrating how a key stakeholder group, Indigenous people, have been involved with and engaged in the work of the Australian Museum, Sydney, over the past 30 years. It is suggested that the processes museums have developed in building relationships with Indigenous people, particularly at the practitioner level, could form a template for how museums make themselves relevant to broader communities through active engagement with multiple communities of practice.

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2 comments

Lynda Kelly - 4.11 PM, 02 November 2009
Hi Mellie and thanks for your comment. That article can be obtained from any library that has the Curator journal - the Australian Museum library has it and also Sydney University has all Curator journals. Most libraries woudl also do you an interlibrary loan. Let me know if you need further assistance by sending me a message via my staff profile.
mellie25 - 8.10 PM, 07 October 2009
Where is this article? looks really interesting...

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