Sjaak Braster
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The twentieth-century process of secularization does not mean that institutional church and Christian ideas were irrelevant for twentieth-century societal projects - such as the introduction of democracy, the improvement of school and education, the framing of national identities - or in the establishment of welfare-states. On the contrary, this publication is built on the presupposition that secularization runs parallell with the sacralization of...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
This volume discusses a broad range of themes and methodological issues around images, photography and film. It is about sharing a fascination about the visual history of education and how images became the most influential (circulating) media within the field of education on local, regional, national and international levels. Within this volume images are primarily analyzed as presenters, mediators, and means of observation. Images are seen as mobile...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Gradually the historians of education have broken out of the traditional school museums - which are no longer the sole places to communicate research findings with the wider public - and gone beyond the traditional publication formats. Indeed, they started exploring how to work with the [educational] past in the present, experimenting with presenting the educational past in new ways, and reflecting on how these new forms of mediation and musealisation...