Silences and Images: The Social History of the Classroom

by Kate Rousmaniere, Ian Grosvenor, Martin Lawn

Overview

This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology and approach in writing the history of education, drawing on oral history, photographs, architecture, letters, and diaries. The authors explore the different ways in which historians might use different methodologies and sources. In so doing they raise different questions about history and historical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820439266
Publisher:	Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/28/1999
Series:	History of Schools and Schooling Ser. , #7
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The Editors: Ian Grosvenor is Lecturer in Education at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Martin Lawn is Reader in Education at Westhill College, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Kate Rousmaniere is Associate Professor of Education at Miami University, Ohio, United States.

Editorial Reviews

Focuses on the silence in the history of education about the practice, meaning, and culture of classrooms in the past. Reconstructs the culture of such common spaces in schools and asks how historians can piece together the social history of the classroom. Addresses questions of research methodology and approach in writing the history of education, drawing on oral history, photographs, architecture, letters, and diaries. Based on a series of innovative conferences on the history of classrooms that met in Birmingham, England, in 1995, and in Toronto, Canada, in 1996. Includes b&w historical photos of students in classrooms. The editor is a lecturer in education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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