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Representing Other

Finding Reflections of Myself from a Space In-Between a Garden and a Museum

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Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators

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As a museum educator, my role is to represent and reveal works of art, artefacts or spaces connected to individuals or to a group which have some type of national, ethnic, cultural or social significance. Because I am a cultural hybrid, I often feel like an inadequate interloper who cannot represent anyone’s culture with integrity and purity because it is not mine and I am not theirs.

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  1. Public Programs Specialist Surrey Museum Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

    Kendra Fehr

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  1. University of British Columbia, Canada

    David Anderson

  2. University of British Columbia, Canada

    Alex de Cosson

  3. University of British Columbia, Canada

    Lisa McIntosh

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Fehr, K. (2015). Representing Other. In: Anderson, D., Cosson, A.d., McIntosh, L. (eds) Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-238-7_13

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