Museums and the active citizen: Tackling the problems of social exclusion

Citizenship Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-57

  Newman, Andrew ^a   McLean, Fiona ^b   Urquhart, Gordon ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Burnside Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; MUSEUM; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

EID: 14644407430     PISSN: 13621025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1362102042000325351     Document Type: Article

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