siobhan mcconnachie, navigating new ethical terrain

Navigating new ethical terrainA glimpse into Glasgow’s journey

Siobhan McConnachie Glasgow MuseumsResearch Manager for Learning and Audiences

[Museums] ought to be the centre around which educational institutions should cluster, the storehouse whence they could draw the material examples and illustrations required on the lecture table and in the class-room

The present position of the Museum and Art Galleries of Glasgow, 1885

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‘What I liked about the project, why I got involvedis that it isn’t curators telling us what is right. We’re doing this, we’re making it and that’s very special.’

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“I've seen a realdifference in some ofthem in termsof how engaged theyare in education andhaving a positive

impactupon their self

esteem.”

Wendy Miller, Literacy Tutor,Motherwell College (projectPartner, Truck Art)

What Should Our Label Say?

As a group we are: outgoing,sporty, sincere, shy, down-to-earth guys who have madesome mistakes… Sometimesyou feel trapped in a viciouscircle of reoffending. Peoplethink that all we want to do iscause trouble. Actually nothingcould be further from the truth.(Andy D, HMP Barlinnie)

Siobhan McConnachie Research Manager for Learning and Audiences

siobhan.mcconnachie@glasgowlife.org.uk