The use of pictures in the research of history of education
Supporting Agencies
- Universidad de Málaga
- ISCHE
Abstract
With the help of new technologies, the use of visual sources has enabled historians to broaden research topics and change, at least apparently, their research studies. In this article, after dealing with the complexity of the visual subject matter, we study how educational researchers have been using this element over the last decade. Even though many works use images as a complement to the text, we make three proposals to use images as sources, treating them like documents and submitting them to the process of selection, criticism and analysis supported in the historical method. Using images should allow us to question ourselves about new issues beyond the educational scenario and to broaden the spaces and times that we study. Finally, aware of the evocative power of images, we should take into account the emotional component frequently associated to them.
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