Session Information
17 SES 05, The Visual in the History of Education
Paper Session
Contribution
Several historians of education have underlined the role of school photographs in understanding the visual and material culture of school place in the past and their use as documents about teaching and educating inside the school environment and the ‘black box’ of school classrooms. Other historians put an emphasis on the emotions that photographs and images of schooling create and mobilize, the different interpretations of seeing and analyzing the visible and the invisible.
The aim of this paper is in the first part to analyze the role of school photographs and albums and their use as documents in the history of teaching and schooling. The way oral history data can be analysed and shed light on different aspects of teaching and schooling is also one of the objectives in the theoretical part.
In the second part we intend to analyze and compare photographs from different Greek rural education settings (1950-1970) in order to reveal the everyday life and different aspects of teaching and learning inside the primary school. The subjectivity of seeing both from the point of view of the photographer and the historian will be discussed and analyzed.
The comparison of school photographs to oral testimonies of teachers about teaching and learning in the same period will help us reconstruct the picture of primary school in the after war period.
The analysis will be based on 4 axes: 1) discipline and behavior, 2) educational practices (methods of teaching and learning), 3) school knowledge 4) the role of the teacher.
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Expected Outcomes
References
C. Burke, ‘Hands-on History: towards a critique of the everyday’, History of Education, Journal of the History of Education Society, 30:2, 191-201. S. Spencer “A Uniform Identity: Schoolgirl Snapshots and the Spoken Visual” History of Education, 36: 2¸227-247. K. Rousmaniere, “Questioning the Visual in the History of Education’, History of Education 30, no 2 (2001), 109-116 I. Grosvenor, M. Lawn, K. Rousmaniere, “Imagining Past Schooling: the Necessity for Montage”, The University of Leuven ISCHE Workshop, Summer 1998.
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