Role and value dialogue in the educational action of polish museums

Abstract

Researches allows to presume that museum education, despite its important sociological value, has not been fully elaborated. The article is an attempt to show the communication potential of museums in Poland through their educational activities. By describing aspects of educators work and the requirements set before them, the author tries to point to possible communication channels and their connection to the daily educational offer of museums. In the following, he discusses the issues of responsibility resulting from building a dialogue between the museum as an institution and museum as a team of employees, and the recipients by putting forward the thesis about the social responsibility of museum education. Based on the paradigm of symbolic interactionism, the author tries to show the communication potential of museum education serving to build relations and develop museum institutions. She also shows the need to conduct regular research supporting audience development. Emphasizing the importance of participation in contemporary museology, she lists numerous possibilities that the museum has open to dialogue. In conclusion, she indicates the need for further research based on the analysis of documents defining the development and communication strategies of the institution's data, as well as on direct interviews with the creators and recipients of the educational offer.