Appearances matter: the visual in educational history

The visual turn recovers new pasts. With education as its theme, this book seeks to present a body of reflections that questions a certain historicism and renovates historiographical debate about how to conceptualize and use images and artifacts in educational history, in the process presenting new...

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Other Authors: Allender, Tim (Editor), Dussel, Inés (Editor), Grosvenor, Ian 1952- (Editor), Priem, Karin 1955- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2021]
Series:Appearances - studies in visual research vol. 2
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:The visual turn recovers new pasts. With education as its theme, this book seeks to present a body of reflections that questions a certain historicism and renovates historiographical debate about how to conceptualize and use images and artifacts in educational history, in the process presenting new themes and methods for researchers. Images are interrogated as part of regimes of the visible, of a history of visual technologies and visual practices. Considering the socio-material quality of the image, the analysis moves away from the use of images as mere illustrations of written arguments, and takes seriously the question of the life and death of artifacts - that is, their particular historicity. Questioning the visual and material evidence in this way means considering how, when, and in which régime of the visible it has come to be considered as a source, and what this means for the questions contemporary researchers might ask
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (VI, 283 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110634945

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