Session Information
Session 3, Imaging the Body in History of Education
Papers
Time:
2005-09-08
09:00-10:30
Room:
ENG
Chair:
Ulrike Mietzner
Contribution
The school photograph is a ubiquitous feature of schooling. The photograph sits in family albums and is framed on walls and cabinets the world over. Is this a private or public exposition of schooling? How does this material object cross the traditional borders between school and family? How can the historian utilise this overlooked, familiar and everyday element of the public / private archive of schooling? What can we say about the significance of the bodyof the school child in the choreography of school portraiture? This paper will explore the school photograph in the 20th century presenting examples from a variety of European national traditions. The paper will focus on the individual school portrait rather than the group or class photograph. It will trace the history of the tradition of school portraiture and it will explore the various cultural histories of this tradition across Europe. Drawing from a EU funded (SOCATES) web site which has been developed by five European H.I. Institutions, it will present some examples of school photography from the UK, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. School photography is so familiar as to be overlooked by the educational historian. The paper will attempt to stimulate the questioning of the familiar and suggest ways that the historian may work with such material.
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