Silences and Images : The Social History of the Classroom

by Grosvenor, Ian; Lawn, Martin; Rousmaniere, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780820439266
• ISBN10: 0820439266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Ian Grosvenor
Martin Lawn
Kate Rousmaniere
PART 1 RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT CLASSROOM HISTORY
Sneaking into School: classroom history at work	13	(34)
Kristof Dams
Marc Depaepe
Frank Simon
Curriculum History as Lived History	47	(16)
Ulla Johansson
Designing Teaching: The classroom as a technology	63	(20)
Martin Lawn
On Visualising Past Classrooms	83	(22)
Ian Grosvenor
Words about Classrooms: what can one letter tell us?	105	(18)
Harry Smaller
PART 2 SEEKING ANSWERS: CASE STUDIES IN A NEW SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE CLASSROOM
Reconstructing the Classroom Teacher, 1903-1945	123	(22)
Philip Gardner
An Open-ended Education: problems in reconstructing the history of an African-American classroom	145	(17)
Valinda Littlefield
Living the Life: inside and outside the classroom	162	(18)
Lars-Goran Hogman
Reading Made Strange: context and method in becoming literate in eighteenth and nineteenth century England	180	(18)
David Vincent
Reading Teachers' Mail: using women's correspondence to reconstruct the nineteenth century classroom	198	(19)
Jo Anne Preston
Carrying the Torch: African-American and white female teachers and professional culture in the Georgia Upcountry, 1920-1950	217	(18)
Ann Short Chirhart
Sixteen Years in a Classroom	235	(24)
Kate Rousmaniere
PART 3 RAISING QUESTIONS/SEEKING ANSWERS
Silences and Images: reading the past	259	(16)
Jaap ter Linden
List of Contributors	275