Visual History - Mietzner Ulrike
Visual History - Mietzner Ulrike Addressing questions about representation, this book critically explores the potential of different types of visual material to illuminate historical studies. Film…
Specifikacia Visual History - Mietzner Ulrike
Visual History - Mietzner Ulrike
Addressing questions about representation, this book critically explores the potential of different types of visual material to illuminate historical studies. Film and photographic images are considered in specific contexts, presenting case studies along with theoretical reflections about methods, values and the very nature of historical studies. The contributions in this collection range from explorations of picture schemes used in 19th century classrooms to contemporary popular representations of schooling.
Visions of education are put alongside discussion of 'the visual turn', its value to historians, its relations with questions about the construction of knowledge and the archive. Images are examined in children's literature, in the induction of history of education students, in the recreation of past practices and in the promotion of government policies. A range of positions on the