ABSTRACT

School tours are an integral part of museum education programming and often account for a large percent of museum audience attendance. While student demographics have changed over the last century, the demographics of museum educators, particularly those leading K-12 tours has remained predominately White. Though this is common knowledge across the museum field, little research has gone into quantifying these numbers. This article investigates museums as spaces for White people, presents classroom research related to the importance of educators of color, and presents findings from a small-scale study which demonstrate the disparity between tour guide and student demographics.

摘要

学校参观是博物馆教育计划的一个组成部分，通常占博物馆观众出席人数的很大一部分。虽然学生人口统计在上个世纪发生了变化，但博物馆教育工作者的人口统计数据，特别是那些领导 K-12 旅游的人，仍然以白人为主。尽管这是整个博物馆领域的常识，但很少有研究对这些数字进行量化。本文将博物馆作为白人的空间进行调查，介绍与有色人种教育者的重要性相关的课堂研究，并展示了一项小规模研究的结果，该研究证明了导游和学生人口统计之间的差异。