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We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums & Society which will explore the current state in museum education theory and practice. Our rationale begins with the notion that museums can engage new audiences, trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity and imagination. In today's multicultural societies, museums need to explore new synergies with educational institutions and develop innovative means to address educational challenges in engaging ways. In addition, information and communications technologies (ICT) as a burgeoning field of investigation provide to museums a plethora of tools to share resources and communicate broadly to a wide range of users.

The purpose of this special issue is thus two-fold:

1. explore the synergies developed by museums in order to address the impact of informal education in multicultural contexts;
2. the ICT innovations imported in enhancing learning in informal and non-formal contexts;

Themes may include -but are not limited- to the following areas:

 Themes may include -but are not limited- to the following areas:

• Museum education in multicultural contexts: new research questions
• Community outreach and museum education
• Engaging immigrants through museum education: emerging case studies Museums and schools: towards the re-definition of a creative synergy
• Learning by doing through the use of interactive activities
• Experiential-based learning and museum education
• ICT and personalized museum education
• Mobile experiences and museum education
• Gamification and museum education
• Crowdsourcing and museum education
• Virtual and augmented reality and museum education  

Send your abstract of 300 words along with a brief CV in both guest editors:

Dr Stella Sylaiou (ssylaiou@yahoo.gr)

Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti (afilipp@yahoo.gr).

All accepted abstracts will undergo a double peer- review process. The issue is scheduled for publication in November 2014.

For more information, feel free to contact the guest editors.