Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
The Museum of Modern Art · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Larissa Raphael, Francis Estrada, Lisa Mazzola
Arts and HumanitiesSocial SciencesPersonal Development
About the course
The most effective classrooms are not spaces for delivering answers, but laboratories for asking questions that facilitate collective meaning making. This course provides a framework for inquiry-based teaching—a student-centered methodology that uses art to spark deep critical thinking and collaborative dialogue. By using the strategies developed by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn to facilitate a process of close looking and evidence-based reasoning that empowers your st
The consensus
Every one of the 20 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (2 votes).
“Great! this course gives amazing activities and ideas for the classroom, but it also gives you smart strategies for us to connect and evaluate a work of art differently.”
Coursera's 4.8 comes from 540 ratings. Of those, 1.9% are 1–2★.
Starisk reads the reviews learners voted most helpful, and weights each by the square root of its votes: a review with 80 upvotes counts about five times one with 2. Unvoted reviews are not skipped out of laziness — by this model they carry no evidence that other students endorsed them.
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗