Daniel Whitaker

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A collection of thoughts, articles and texts from exhibits.

  • The Topic of Power: Why We Must Empower Students To Understand It

    This article argues for the importance of teaching young people about power dynamics. By understanding how power operates in various contexts, students can become more informed, critical thinkers and active agents of change. I highlight the need to address power as a complex and often overlooked topic and suggest that by doing so, we can…

  • The Learning Journey Through a School Museum

    An important article published on School Rubric. Almost a manifesto of what the MuseOn is! I like to think of the MusēOn, as a place for questions. Good questions. open, conceptual ones. Questions that are meant to make us pause, think, and especially debate. Those types of questions that rattle our brains and normatized preconceptions…

  • A Dinosaur With Butterfly Wings

    An article published on School Rubric about the “I Am” exhibit at the MuseOn “I am a dinosaur with butterfly wings”, reads the writing on one of the instruments in the new EARJ MuseOn exhibit “I am”. Although a bit playful, this inscription, or testimony, is one of several creative, personal, or even revealing responses to…

  • Me < > You

    This article, featured in School Rubric, was about one of the exhibits done at the MuseOn, during the Covid outbreak. On top of the MusēOn door at The American School of Rio de Janeiro lies a sign. It’s a small blue circle with an inscription around it that reads “This Blue Sphere We Share”. It is meant…

  • Mind My Business

    My first article published on School Rubric! I have a question for you: Do you own your face? Now think about it for just a second. This question might seem right up there with “Do you know how to tie your shoes?”, or some query as obvious as that. But it may be striking to…

  • Sarah’s Reward

    This was the first article I wrote as the MuseOn curator. It was one of those striking and heartfelt moments we encounter as educators. I come from an arts and design background. I have always swum in the visual horizon of things. I got involved in education, in part because I am very fond of…

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