Institute of Education London

John Reeve

• Qualifications and position:
  • MA, Cert Ed
  • Visiting Fellow: Art, Design & Museology
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Culture, Communication and Media
• Summary:
  • Museum educator and cultural historian in UK and abroad, especially Asia. Cultural learning particularly in museums galleries and heritage sites, including implications for policy and for art, history, citizenship, religious and diversity education. The development of museum learning professionalism.
• Teaching:
  • MA Museums and Galleries in Education
    Contributor to Distance Learning Citizenship and History MA course (History Culture and Citizenship module)
• Research Projects:
  • Religion and education in museums (guest editor of fthcmg special issue of Material Religion)
    Interaction of western and Asian cultures across artforms, and in museums, art history and education (book in progress).
• Professional Activities:
  • Chair, GEM The Group for Education in Museums (UK)
    Chair, Heritage Panel, Learning Outside the Classroom Council
    Adviser, British Council, HLF, and a number of organisations in India and Japan.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • Heritage learning in the UK and Asia. Pan Asian heritage conference, New Delhi 12.08; coeditor of conference proceedings (fthcmg INTACH 2009)
    Implementation and evaluation in museum outreach, Museums and outreach conference, Denmark 03.09
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • India, Japan, developing interests in China, Korea, Thailand ( in all of which countries I have run or participated in training courses).