Best Practice, a tool to improve museum education internationally

Livro 1 e 2 disponíveis para descarregar neste link:http://network.icom.museum/ceca/publications/best-practice/

Os Desafios da Política de Museus em Tempos de Crise

Para ler o artigo "Os desafios da política de museus em tempos de crise" vá a http://www.icom-portugal.org/multimedia/Os%20desafios%20da%20pol%C3%83%C2%ADtica%20de%20museus%20em%20tempos%20de%20crise.pdf . Para ler o comunidado do ICOM sobre a Administração Pública da Cultura e os Museus vá a http://www.icom-portugal.org/documentos_outros,129,349,detalhe.aspx

Para Além do Olhar

Para Alem do Olhar - O percurso táctil da exposição permanente do Museu de Marinha. Algumas questões de nat...

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Coping with Cuts to Disability Services

Coping with Cuts to Disability Services by Claudia Wood


In October 2010, Demos published Destination Unknown, exploring the impact of the welfare benefit cuts announced in the Spending Review on disabled people. Our analysis of DWP caseloads revealed that, overall, the 3.5 million disabled people currently claiming disability-related benefits would lose about £9.2 billion of financial support by 2015 as a result of the Government’s announced changes.

But after publishing this report, we realised we knew little of what was going on ‘on the ground’ with local services. Disabled people are disproportionately reliant both on welfare benefits and public services – so we were only looking at one half of the coin when it came to the impact on disabled people of the government’s reforms. Because the fact was, in the very same Spending Review that saw such radical reforms to benefits, the government also announced budgetary cuts to local authorities that were truly game changing. A 28 per cent cut over a four year period. Councils were facing tough decisions – sacrifices had to be made, and many were placed in the unenviable position of choosing between refuse collection and library maintenance, play groups and elderly care.

Coping with the Cuts, has therefore attempted to throw light on how the government cuts to local authority budgets are affecting disabled people’s services across the country. We undertook the ambitious task of collating a range of data regarding front line care and support services from every local authority in England and Wales, sending out hundreds of FOI requests to gather the necessary information.

Once we had this to hand, we realised that there were disparities between the level of budgetary cuts local authorities were making to their social care budgets, and the changes being made to the front line of care and support. Some councils had very large care cuts – up to 22 per cent - but were not raising service user charges, or tightening eligibility criteria. They weren’t closing any services either. On the other hand, some councils were increasing care funding by up to 10 per cent, but reported closures, restrictions in eligibility and large increases in charges for things like meals on wheels and respite.

And it is this disparity which is at the heart of today’s report. We found that when it comes to coping with the cuts, it’s not always how much you have, but what you do with it that counts. We combined this front line information and created a ‘coping score’ to demonstrate this.

The results, published today and presented graphically at http://disability-cuts-map.demos.co.uk/, shows that local authorities are each coping with budgetary constraints in very different ways, and some better than others. By looking beyond how much funding councils had, to how this was affecting their front lines, we were able to avoid the very common criticism levelled at councils with big budget cuts. Some councils wielding large cuts are actually doing well in protecting disabled people's services – this measure acknowledges their hard work.

We were, for the first time, able to compare local authorities based on a set of objective and comparable data and present the information as a national picture. And it is a phenomenally complex picture, one which the government would do well to consider when assessing the impact of its local authority budget cuts.

But the key finding of this report is, perhaps, that there is no ‘magic bullet’ when it comes to coping with the cuts. We report how many local authorities are trying new things – from citizenship-based commissioning, to coproduction with disability user groups, to integrating their health and care systems – to get more for less. Each are at a different stage in the process, some were encountering greater obstacles than others, but it is still early days. Hopefully, local authorities will consider today’s coping score as a baseline – and take it as a challenge to improve and learn from the range of coping strategies already being pioneered across the country.

Seamus
The information on North Yorkshire suggests:
1). -9.04 per cent budget change to disabled children and families' care and support
2). 0.26 per cent budget change to adult care and support
3). -4.15 per cent budget change to older people's care and support
It states that North Yorkshire has increased the cost of specialist transport by 10 per cent and is no longer offering community meals services. We are rated as 'OK'

I have to query the data and the suppositions in your methodology. Some statements are plainly untrue... e.g. we are seeing an increase in the uptake of meals through our social enterprise models with WRVS and Age Concern in North Yorkshire. The fact that we have organised things differently and we are being more efficient does not then mean a reduction in front line services.
Likewise you rightly use the word 'change' when you refer to % in adult social care. However we are offering more people support and with a wider transformed range of services. Your headline 'Coping with Cuts' gives little credit to the successful efforts of Local Government to modernise and transform thus achieving greater efficiencies while producing better outcomes for people.

PS we continue to offer services at all levels of the FACs criteria.


Claudia
Seamus - we based our analysis on FOI responses from individual councils. All information we used came directly from them.

North Yorkshire told us "Meals on wheels - No longer provided. Number of people who accessed the service: 1,051". The FOI request allowed councils to give us additional information, but the response gave us no further details on this particular issue.

However - and more importantly - whilst closures and cessations of services was mentioned as "additional information" on the Disability Cuts website, closures are NOT included in the calculation of the council's coping score. We explain this on the website here http://disability-cuts-map.modernactivity.co.uk/how-we-made-the-coping-index/ and in the full report. We did not include closures and cessations for the very reason you imply here - it is too subjective an issue, and we are not in a position to judge whether the end of a service is done for a "good" or "bad" reason.

Therefore, the end (or not) of community meals in North Yorkshire does not affect North Yorkshire's score at all.

The increases in user charges in North Yorkshire in hourly home care, transport, day centre meals and older people's respite charges are taken into account, and DOES affect North Yorkshire's score.

However, the fact that eligibility criteria is (again according to the FOI response) "moderate, with the aim of meeting lower need where the risk to independence may be significant" counts in North Yorkshire's favour, as does the fact it does not apply an efficiency saving on personal budget allocations. Hence the overall placing of 67 out of 152 - above average.

Hope this clarifies. I would also suggest you read the full report, which very much focuses on the innovations of some councils in the list (not just the top copers) and distils some key things they have in common that other authorities could take on board.

The full report can be dowloaded here:http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/copingwiththecuts

Falar Com as Mãos

"Falar com as mãos" é um livro de sensibilização à língua gestual portuguesa que inclui no final da história um alfabeto que nos ensina a compreender e a comunicar com pessoas surdas. Pode ser encomendado aqui.

Full and Equal Access

The National Arts and Disability Strategy highlights the need to act now to ensure that people with disabilities have access to fulfil their entitlement of a culturally expressive life. Emma Bennison discusses the need for a fundamental cultural shift if the strategy is going to be fully realised….

When the Cultural Ministers Council endorsed a National Arts and Disability Strategy (NADS) in 2009, it was met with a sense of optimism by the arts and disability sector. While there were concerns at the lack of funding to support its implementation and the absence of measurable targets, there was general agreement that this was a landmark first step toward genuine inclusion for people with disability in all aspects of arts and culture. This was the first time a Federal Government had developed an arts and disability policy to be implemented in collaboration with State, Territory and Local Governments.

Since then, two hundred and twenty nine projects around increasing access to arts and culture have been cited in the NADS update report. Given the lack of targets within the strategy, it is impossible to determine how this compares with previous years and whether the NADS has been the driver, or whether progress would have been made regardless. It is also too early to say how successful cross-Government collaborations will be in leveraging additional funding and support for the focus areas within the strategy.

Despite the challenges which remain in terms of the collaboration still required from Governments at all levels to implement the NADS, it has not necessarily been a missed opportunity. History will judge its success on whether people with disability enjoy full and equal access to arts and culture at all levels. Arts Access Australia (AAA) estimates that $24 million will be required in order to fully implement the NADS. The Office for the Arts has recently provided $500 000 in new funding to AAA for implementation of various aspects of the NADS and AAA is partnering with the Australia Council to deliver Cultivate, a funding program to support professional development. An excellent start, but more needs to be done.

But as is the case in the broader disability sector, the major barrier to full and equal access remains attitudinal and this is equally in need of attention if the NADS is to leave a lasting legacy. This is not to discount the numerous examples of inclusive arts practice already evident across the country. But in order for systemic change to occur, there needs to be a fundamental cultural shift which even the most effective strategy will not deliver by itself.

It has long been my view that the most successful way to influence community attitudes and Government policy is to ensure that people with disability are empowered to have a voice at all levels regarding decisions which affect them. This is why access to education and training are critical, as is the employment of people with disability at all levels across the arts and cultural sector. Considering that the arts is generally viewed as an innovative sector which embraces diversity, this is an opportunity for the sector to take the lead in an area which needs urgent attention, not tokenism, but real career pathways and real jobs for people with real skills and talents.

The NADS has laid the policy foundations for removing barriers to arts and cultural participation for people with disability. Governments are taking some strong initial steps in the right direction. The missed opportunity is the enabling of a rich, (perhaps at times dissonant) but ongoing dialogue with people with disability across the sector every day, not only when it’s time to build the accessible website or the new ramp, (though of course these are important and valued initiatives.) What’s needed is an arts and cultural narrative where disability is part of the story, not a separate book to be dusted off every so often. Only then will the real opportunity created by the NADS be realised.

Emma Bennison


In: http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/blog/

Relatório Mundial sobre Deficiência

Foi lançado, no passado dia 9 de Junho, o primeiro relatório mundial sobre deficiência, produzido conjuntamente pela Organização Mundial de Saúde e pelo Banco Mundial.

De acordo com este relatório, mais de um bilião de pessoas tem actualmente, no mundo inteiro, alguma forma de deficiência ou incapacidade.

As pessoas com deficiência têm em geral inferiores condições de saúde, mais baixas aquisições escolares, menores oportunidades económicas e mais elevadas taxas de pobreza do que as pessoas sem deficiência. Esta situação deve-se, em larga medida, à falta de serviços à sua disposição e aos múltiplos obstáculos com que se deparam no seu quotidiano.

O relatório apresenta as melhores evidências disponíveis sobre os meios viáveis para superar as barreiras existentes no acesso aos cuidados de saúde, à reabilitação, à educação, ao emprego e aos serviços de apoio, bem como para criar ambientes favoráveis ao desenvolvimento das pessoas com deficiência ou incapacidade. O relatório termina com um conjunto concreto de acções recomendadas aos governos e seus parceiros.

Este relatório sobre deficiência, pioneiro a nível mundial, dará um contributo significativo para a implementação da Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência. Na zona de intersecção entre a saúde pública, os direitos humanos e o desenvolvimento, o relatório está destinado a tornar-se um recurso indispensável para os decisores políticos, prestadores de serviços, profissionais e defensores das pessoas com deficiência e suas famílias.

Mais informações na página da OMS sobre o relatório http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/en/index.html .

Pode ainda aceder às versões em inglês quer do Relatório completo http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789240685215_eng.pdf quer da versão do Relatório em texto de leitura fácil http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/easyread.pdf .

(Brevemente o INR, IP disponibilizará a tradução portuguesa da versão em leitura fácil).

Fonte: INR – Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação

Guia de Apoio à Cultura e Criatividade

No passado mês de Junho o Ministério da Cultura e Ciência editou um Guia de Apoios à Cultura e Criatividade onde se podem encontrar informações sobre programas de apoio e de incentivo e iniciativas e mecanismos financeiros, nacionais e internacionais, disponíveis para as várias áreas. Pretende-se dotar criadores, agentes culturais e empresários com um instrumento prático que ajude a promover e dinamizar as suas actividades. Este Guia será regularmente actualizado estando, por isso, permanentemente disponível para consulta on-line no site do GPEARI(procurar o Guia nos separadores do lado direito)

Re-Presenting DisabilityActivism and Agency in the Museum by Richard Sandell

Re-Presenting DisabilityActivism and Agency in the Museum
Edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Price: $42.95
Binding/Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-415-49473-1Publish Date: January 26th 2010
Imprint: Routledge
Pages: 284 pages

Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations.

This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary representational practices as well as illuminating existing, related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and organisational purposes and responsibilities, which have considerable currency within museums and museum studies.

Re-Presenting Disability explores such issues as:

•In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics historically been represented in the collections and displays of museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical approaches?

•How do emerging trends in museum practice – designed to counter prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people – relate to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public history and mass media?

•What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate existing collections in order to investigate histories of disability and disabled people and to identify material evidence that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice? What are the implications of these developments for contemporary collecting?

•How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the way?

•How do audiences – disabled and non-disabled – respond to and engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront, undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?

A experiência de visita ao Museu

Título: A experiência de visita ao museu: visitas aos museus: expectativas e percepções, a experiência de consumo e factores críticos de satisfação
Autor: Matos, Joana Isabel Barreiro Alves de
Orientador: Vale, Rita Miguel Ramos Dias Coelho do
Data: Mar-2009
Editora: Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão
Citação: Matos, Joana Isabel Barreiro Alves de. 2009. "A experiência de visita ao museu: visitas aos museus: expectativas e percepções, a experiência de consumo e factores críticos de satisfação". Dissertação de Mestrado. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão.
Resumo: Este estudo vem analisar a necessidade de aplicação do marketing aos museus, analisando e identificando um conjunto de factores críticos de satisfação e de experiência de visita. A experiência de visita aos museus analisada de acordo com as expectativas e percepções dos visitantes revela algumas oportunidades de gestão dos museus do ponto de vista da aplicação do marketing. Numa época em que as actividades de marketing cada vez mais condicionam e influenciam a resposta dos consumidores, é de extrema relevância que também instituições que habitualmente não seguem uma óptica puramente comercial comecem a utilizar estratégias de marketing para captarem o interesse dos consumidores. Neste estudo foram analisados um conjunto de factores tipicamente considerados críticos em serviços, como a tangibilidade, a fiabilidade, a compreensibilidade, a confiança e a empatia, bem como novos factores inovadores, dos quais se destacam as políticas de preços, as novas tecnologias, factores ambientais (infra-estrutura, o tamanho do museu), e actividades culturais e sociais. Através da análise de impacto na visita foi possível verificar que a empatia é o factor que mais contribui para a satisfação dos visitantes embora curiosamente não seja o mais importante em termos de expectativas. Os visitantes esperam poder confiar no serviço do museu, valorizam o seu ambiente, a política de preços onde se incluem as campanhas, e a gratuitidade das entradas. Ao fazermos análises separadas para participantes do sexo masculino e feminino, apercebemo-nos ainda que a nostalgia é um factor relevante para as mulheres mas insignificante para os homens. Os resultados mostram também que os factores identificados neste estudo permitem medir a satisfação, e que esta explica a lealdade, isto é, a intenção de repetição da visita. Finalmente, ao analisarmos a probabilidade de recomendação da visita identificámos que esta está condicionada conjuntamente pela satisfação experimentada e pelo nível de lealdade. A satisfação é um factor mediador e, por essa razão, só através dela é que é possível a lealdade explicar também a recomendação ("word-of-mouth"). Este estudo permitiu também encontrar diferenças na satisfação dos visitantes em função do seu género, bem como detectar diferenças entre a realidade dos museus nacionais e estrangeiros. As novas tecnologias contribuem para a satisfação dos visitantes no contexto dos museus estrangeiros, o que leva a crer que este aspecto possa constituir uma melhoria nos museus nacionais. Finalmente, este estudo veio realçar a importância da valorização da experiência de visita aos museus, contribuindo para a identificação de alguns factores inovadores para esta realidade.
Descrição: Mestrado em Marketing
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/718
Aparece nas colecções: DG - Teses de Mestrado
BISEG - Teses de Mestrado

Revista Museologia.pt (nº3) e Museus e Património Imaterial: agentes, fronteiras, identidades.

Revista Museologia.pt n.º 3 e Museus e Património Imaterial Lançamento no Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga | 10 de Dezembro | 18h00

Hoje, 10 de Dezembro, terá lugar o lançamento das novas edições do IMC: Revista Museologia.pt (n.º 3) e Museus e Património Imaterial: agentes, fronteiras, identidades.
A sessão será presidida pelo Prof. Doutor João Carlos Brigola, Director do IMC, e terá lugar no Auditório do MNAA, pelas 18h00.
A apresentação pública das obras será efectuada, respectivamente, pela Prof. Doutora Natália Correia Guedes e pela Prof. Doutora Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCSH / UNL).

A sessão contará com a presença do Dr. Paulo M. Ramos, Presidente do Conselho de Administração da Softlimits, S.A., entidade responsável pela co-edição de Museus e Património Imaterial.

Constituindo o periódico de referência a nível nacional para a área da Museologia, o novo número da Revista Museologia.pt tem como tema central o dossiê “Museus e Inovação Tecnológica”.
O volume inclui ainda as rubricas “Projectos e Experiências”, “Exposições”, “História e Memórias” e “Internacional”, contando com a colaboração de 30 autores.

A edição "Museus e Património Imaterial. Agentes | Fronteiras | Identidades" inclui, por sua vez, um Volume de actas do Ciclo de seis Colóquios realizados pelo IMC em 2008 dedicados ao referido tema.
Amplamente ilustrado, o volume conta com textos de 33 autores, nas áreas da Museologia, Antropologia, Economia Agrária e Sociologia Rural, Etnomusicologia, Direito e Património.

IME Pre-Conference Workshop: "Re-Presenting Disability" by Dr. Richard Sandell

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Re-Presenting Disability
Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
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Plano de acção para a integração das pessoas com deficiências ou incapacidades

Para aceder ao Plano de acção para a integração das pessoas com deficiências ou incapacidades, clique aqui!

Conteúdos:
1. Uma nova concepção de deficiência
2. Enquadramento internacional
3. Situação e desafios do sistema de integração das pessoas com deficiências ou incapacidade
4. Uma estratégia nacional para o sistema de integração das pessoas com deficiências ou incapacidade
5. Intervenção e estratégias para a qualidade de vida
6. Condições para a intervenção e execução do plano

Opening the Door to the Entire Community. How Museums are using Permanent Collections to Engage Audiences

Summary:
Museums can better serve their communities and attract a more diverse mix of visitors by using their permanent collections more creatively. This Wallace-commissioned report, the first in a three-part series, shows how careful research and informed strategic planning helped several museums to reframe their permanent collections, launch innovative programming and take an active role in issues that affect their audiences’ neighborhoods.

Published: November 1998, 37 pages

Publishing Organization: The Wallace Foundation

Document Type: Report

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Tese - O Museu como espaço de Inclusão e Acessibilidade por Ana Cristina Alves

O Museu como Espaço de Inclusão e Acessibilidade. Ana Cristina Alves.

Temas de Museologia. Museus e Acessibilidade

Autor(es):Peter Colwell, Elisabete Mendes
Lisboa, IPM, 2004
ISBN:972-776-229-8
24x21,5 cm; 94 pp.; 14 il. cor e 19 il. p/b; capa mole; ed. port.
Disponível:Sim
PVP:€ 15.00
O segundo título da colecção Temas de Museologia tem como principal objectivo contribuir para tornar os museus e as suas colecções mais acessíveis a todos. Deste modo, analisam-se os obstáculos à plena fruição do nosso património cultural móvel, traça-se um diagnóstico inicial das situações mais graves, apontam-se recomendações e dão-se exemplos de boas práticas.

Fonte: IMC

ACESSIBILIDADE. MUSEOLOGIA 8, Série Museologia: Roteiros Práticos

editor. RESOURCE: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries

Coleção Série Museologia
ISBN 10: 85-314-4086-6
ISBN 13: 978-85-314-4086-1
Formato: 19,5 x 26,8 cm
Nº de Páginas: 120 pp.
Peso: 310 g

Este volume da Série Museologia trata de um tema da mais alta relevância: como garantir o acesso de todos os cidadãos aos bens culturais, particularmente os que estão disponíveis em museus, arquivos e bibliotecas do país. Segundo estimativas feitas no Reino Unido e no Brasil, os portadores de deficiências são uma parcela expressiva da população, usuários potenciais dos espaços culturais. A publicação é destinada principalmente aos profissionais prestadores de serviços que operam em áreas culturais, na forma de um guia prático e objetivo com importantes informações sobre conceitos, características e necessidades relativas às pessoas com deficiência. È uma contribuição importante para a conscientização profissional dos prestadores de serviços nessas áreas, e também para a ampliação e melhoria do atendimento, e do acesso físico, sensorial e intelectual aos bens culturais.

Fonte: EDUSP

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Arts, Culture and Blindness

This book explores one of the most powerful myths in modern society: the myth that blind people are incapable of understanding and creating visual arts. In its pages, it explores case studies of blind adults and children, and interviews with art teachers …

Through this enquiry, it aims to contribute not only to an understanding of the pedagogy of the visual arts and education, but also to a consideration of the cultural understanding of myths about blindness and disability in contemporary society, and how education is affected by these systems of belief.

Arts, Culture and Blindness is the first book to present a single study of adult and child art students actually participating in courses in universities and schools for the blind. In doing so it delves into the topic of the culture of education and society and its affects on an understanding of blindness and the visual arts. Furthermore, through an analysis of individual and group behaviour, the book also introduces a new cultural model for studying blindness and disability, investigates the social influences on the nature of blindness and the treatment of people who are blind, and examines the influences that have affected the self belief of blind students and the way they create art.

Fonte: http://www.blindnessandarts.com/

Relatório sobre a Conformidade dos Sítios da Administração Pública na Internet

A UMIC - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento, publicou no seu site o relatório feito em Fevereiro de 2008 sobre o Estado da acessibilidade dos conteúdos da Web dos sites da Administração Pública:

"Relatório sobre a Conformidade dos Sítios da Administração Pública na Internet com o Nível ŒA¹ das Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 do W3C: Avaliação por amostragem." (213 KB), UMIC ­ Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento, IP, Fevereiro de 2008.

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