The theme of ISCHE-Athens aims at challenging historians of education to reflect on their relationship with archives and sources. To express their formed views on the past about the relationship between themselves and sources, as they emerged from their research experiences. Also, to discuss their relationship with the sources right now. But also about their hopes and fears regarding the resources and their use in the future.
The proposals for this conference could be based on several axes:
- defending historiographical biodiversity: methodological perspectives and historiographical traditions compared;
- the use of unpublished primary documentary sources in public or private collections;
- the use of published primary documentary sources: newspapers and periodicals (or journals), novels, short stories, children’s books, comics, school textbooks etc;
- the use of images as sources in the history of education: engravings, paintings and photographs;
- the use of material sources, especially in the area of school material culture researches and studies on the historical heritage of schools;
- oral histories: voices and memories of people, communities, stakeholders;
- life histories and biographical research: autobiographies, diaries, letters;
- television and cinema as sources: which way of representing the school’s past?
- school museums as reserve of historical sources and as sites of memory;
- the public space as a source for the history of education: monuments, epigraphs and statues;
- new frontiers: use of digital sources, sources’ data bases, use of artificial intelligence in historical research: potential and risks;
- digital histories: new forms of historical narrative;
You may find useful the following Call for Papers. Click below according to your language:
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