Public Histories of Education
Short description
In recent years, historians of education have moved beyond traditional publication formats and venues such as school museums to communicate their research findings to a wider public. Indeed, they have started to explore and experiment with new ways of presenting the educational past in the present, and they have reflected on how these new forms of mediation and musealisation of sources impact historical research and the (hi)stories told.By zooming in on three themes – musealisation, new ways of exhibiting, and historical storytelling –, this edited volume illustrates the vitality of the history of education as a field of study as well as its adaptability to the “changing contexts” of its public function.
Editor: Herman, F., Braster, S. & del Mar del Pozo Andrés, M. (2023). Exhibiting the Past: Public Histories of Education. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719871
Content
Introduction
- Frederik Herman, Sjaak Braster and María del Mar del Pozo Andrés — Towards A Public History of Education: A Manifesto
Musealization
- Marc Depaepe — Like a Voice in the Wilderness? Striving for a Responsible Handling of the Educational Heritage
- Lieselot De Wilde, Bruno Vanobbergen and Sarah Van Bouchaute — Life after the Apology: Making the Unspeakable Visible
- Iveta Kestere and Arnis Strazdins — Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Representation of Soviet Childhood in the Museums of Latvia
- Antonio Viñao Frago — Public History between the Scylla of Academic History and the Charybdis of History as a Show: A Personal and Institutional Experience
- María del Mar del Pozo Andrés — Public Voices and Teachers’ Identities: Exploring the Visitors’ Book of a School Memory Exhibition
- Helena Ribeiro de Castro — Flowers on a Grave: Memories of a Hidden, but Not Forgotten, School (Hi)story
Exhibiting
- Jeroen J.H. Dekker — Story Telling through Fine Art: Public Histories of Childhood and Education in Exhibitions in the Netherlands and Belgium C. 1980 – C. 2020
- Karin Priem and Ian Grosvenor — Future Pasts: Web Archives and Public History as Challenges for Historians of Education in Times of COVID-19
- Joyce Goodman — Conserving the Past, Learning from the Past: Art, Science and London’s National Gallery
- Ian Grosvenor and Siân Roberts — Art, Anti-fascism, and the Evolution of a “Propaganda of the Imagination”: The Artists International Association 1933–1945
- Christine Mayer — Exhibiting the Past: Women in Art and Design in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Inés Dussel — Picturing School Architecture: Monumentalization and Modernist Angles in the Photographs of School Spaces, 1880–1920
Storytelling
- Nelleke Bakker — Memories of Harm in Institutions of Care: The Dutch Historiography of Institutional Child Abuse from a Comparative Perspective
- Sjaak Braster — Exhibiting Teachers’ Hands: Storytelling Based on a Private Collection of Engravings
- Catherine Burke — Rocking Horses as Peripheral Objects in Pedagogies of Childhood: An Imagined Exhibition
- Angelo Van Gorp and Frederik Herman — On the Trail of the Toucan: A Travelogue about A Peregrination in Educational History
- Wayne J. Urban — Reflections of a Textbook Writer
- Harry Smaller — Making Teacher Union History “Public”: The British Columbia (Canada) Teachers’ Union, and Its “Online Museum”
- Lucía Martínez Moctezuma — The Pedagogical Press and the Public Debate about Schooling