Criticality and things: the power of objects for learning development

Kador, T. (2025). Object-based learning: Exploring museums and collections in education. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787354302

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https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi39.1888

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active learning, museum education, ethical sensitivity, interdisciplinary, object-based learning, material culture, decolonisation

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Robyne Calvert, University of Glasgow

Robyne Calvert is a cultural historian and Effective Learning Adviser in Student Learning Development at the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she has spent three decades researching and teaching art, design, and architectural histories in higher education and museums. Her monograph The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art (Yale University Press, 2024) received the Society of Architectural Historians GB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. This research informs her teaching in writing practice and OBL across expanded disciplines.

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Benjamin, W. (2008). The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (J. A. Underwood, Trans.). Penguin. (Original work published 1935)

Chatterjee, H. J. (2011). Object-based learning in higher education: The pedagogical power of museums. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Committee of ICOM for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), USA, 3, 179–182. https://doi.org/10.18452/8697

Kador, T., & Chatterjee, H. (Eds.). (2020). Object-based learning and well-being: Exploring material connections. Routledge.

Prown, J. D. (1982). Mind in matter: An introduction to material culture theory and method. Winterthur Portfolio, 17(1), 1–19. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/496065

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27-03-2026

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Calvert, R. (2026). Criticality and things: the power of objects for learning development: Kador, T. (2025). Object-based learning: Exploring museums and collections in education. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787354302. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (39). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi39.1888

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