Modes and Meaning: Displays of Evidence in Education

Geert Thyssen, Karin Priem

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138670105
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317209010
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

In the past few decades there has been a growing interest and debate amongst historians of education surrounding issues of visuality, materiality, spatiality, transfer, and circulation. This collection of essays – with its focus on the interaction between ideas, images, objects, and/or spaces that contain an educational dimension – is a contribution to this ongoing debate. The contributors address how meaning is created, conveyed, and transformed through multiple modes of communication, representation, and interaction; through movement across spaces; through media and technologies; and through collective memory- and identity-making. The collection demonstrates that meaning is mobilized through 'multimodality', 'translocation', 'technology', and 'heritage', and that it assumes different qualities which need to be reflected upon in the history of education in particular and in education research in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Mobilising meaning: multimodality, translocation, technology and heritage
• 2. A poetic journey: the transfer and transformation of German strategies for moral education in late eighteenth-century Dutch poetry for children
• 3. Moving frontiers of empire: production, travel and transformation through technologies of display
• 4. Activism, agency and archive: British activists and the representation of educational colonies in Spain during and after the Spanish Civil War
• 5. The Decorated School: cross-disciplinary research in the history of art as integral to the design of educational environments
• 6. Puppets on a string in a theatre of display? Interactions of image, text, material, space and motion in The Family of Man (ca. 1950s–1960s)
• Index