Folds of Past, Present and Future (eBook)

Table of Contents 7
Acknowledgements 11
Note on the editors 13
List of Contributors 15
Introduction 23
1 Leaving Marks of Inquiry: Ravels of Theory, Methodology, and History of Educational Historiography 61
The Cultural History of Education: Between the Siren Song of Philosophy and the Discrete Charm of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 61
Critical Powers of Historical Framing: Continuity and Representation 81
Concentric Circles and Magnetic Currents: Moral Disarmament at the League of Nations International Institute of Educational Cinematography, 1931–34 103
The Study of Education. On Rethinking History with the Help of Marc Depaepe 125
2 The Politics of Diversity: Gender, Culture, and Post-colonial Education 151
Engaging with ‘‘the Act of Looking Back, [and] of Seeing with Fresh Eyes”: the Colonial Experience and Pedagogies of Display 151
A Virtual Visit to the Renovated Royal Museum for Central Africa. Two Major Challenges: Decolonization and Africanization 169
French Variations on the Educational Civilizing Mission (19th–20th century). Cherchez les missionaires, cherchez les femmes! 197
Textbooks in their Contexts: Textbook Studies Revisited 217
3 Flood Lands of Pedagogy: Meanderings between Empiricism, Theory, and Practice 239
“Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik,” Teacher Training and Educational Science – Different Concepts and Attributions of Significance. Germany, 1900–2000 239
Educational Science as an Academic Discipline in Hungary (1867–1953): Turns and Developmental Phases 271
Educational Sciences Between “Real” Moscow and the “Imaginary” West: The Case of Latvia (1989–1999) 289
“Pedagogic” – A Preliminary Thesis on a Lexical Innovation during the European Enlightenment 311
4 Walking the Line: The Attraction of Psychology and Medicine in Educational Theory and Practice 335
From Herbart to Dewey: On the Historical Irresistibility of Learning Psychology 335
The Promises of Suggestion. Hypnosis, Education, and the Dangers of Modernity in Belgium around 1900 359
MBD and De-educationalization: a Countertendency in the pre-ADHD Era 381
5 Turns Taking Turns: Concepts, Approaches, and Methodologies in the Making 405
Dangerous, Seductive, and Innovative. Visual Sources for the History of Education 405
Teachers Acting as Photographers: The Progressive Image of the Cervantes School of Madrid (1918–1936) 427
Sound as an Archival Source in the History of Education for Children with Mental Disabilities. 455
What Might a Material Turn to Educational Histories Add to the History of Education? Proof-eating the Pudding 471
School culture(s): Historiography of a Polysemic Concept 491
Index 511