School Memories : New Trends in the History of Education

"This book reveals how school memories offer not only a tool for accessing the school of the past, but also a key to understanding what people today know (or think they know) about the school of the past. It describes, in fact, how historians' work does not purely and simply consist in exploring school as it really was, but also in the complex process of defining the memory of school as one developed and revisited over time at both the individual and collective level. Further, it investigates the extent to which what people "know" reflects the reality or is in fact a product of stereotypes that are deeply rooted in common perceptions and thus exceedingly difficult to do away with. The book includes fifteen peer-reviewed contributions that were presented and discussed during the International Symposium "School Memories. New Trends in Historical Research into Education: Heuristic Perspectives and Methodological Issues" (Seville, 22-23 September, 2015)"--Back cover Front Matter....Pages i-vii School Memory: Historiographical Balance and Heuristics Perspectives....Pages 1-9 Exploring New Ways of Studying School Memories: The Engraving as a Blind Spot of the History of Education....Pages 11-27 Picture Postcards as a Tool for Constructing and Reconstructing Educational Memory (Spain, 19th–20th Centuries)....Pages 29-45 Snapshots from the Past: School Images on the Web and the Construction of the Collective Memory of Schools....Pages 47-64 Memory and Yearbooks: An Analysis of Their Structure and Evolution in Religious Schools in 20th Century Spain....Pages 65-79 Identity Memory School Figures: The Adjustment of the Andalusian Identity in the School Through School Textbooks (1978–1993)....Pages 81-97 School Memories in Women’s Autobiographies (Italy, 1850–1915)....Pages 99-113 Telling a Story, Telling One’s Own Story: Teachers’ Diaries and Autobiographical Memories as Sources for a Collective History....Pages 115-127 “I Am Alone. Only the Truth Stands Behind Me”: An Interpretation of the Life of an Elementary Teacher....Pages 129-141 Educational Memories and Public History: A Necessary Meeting....Pages 143-155 Methodological, Historiographical and Educational Issues in Collecting Oral Testimonies....Pages 157-164 School Memories of Students from the Teacher’s School in Travnik....Pages 165-174 Faded Memories Carved in Stone: Teachers’ Gravestones as a Form of Collective Memory of Education in Slovenia in the 19th and Early 20th Century....Pages 175-187 Celebrating the School Building: Educational Intentions and Collective Representations (The End of the 19th Century)....Pages 189-201 Remembering School Through Movies: The Films of the Book Cuore (1886) in Republican Italy....Pages 203-217 The Memory of an Ideal School: The Work of Don Lorenzo Milani as Represented by Cinema and Television (1963–2012)....Pages 219-230 Constructing Memory: School in Italy in the 1970s as Narrated in the TV Drama Diario di un Maestro ....Pages 231-244 The Formation of the Teacher’s Image in the Russian Soviet Cinema as a Social Myth About Values Creator-Demiurge....Pages 245-252 Aspects of School Life During the After War Period Through the Analysis of Greek Films....Pages 253-262 Archaeology of Memory and School Culture: Materialities and “Immaterialities” of School....Pages 263-270 Back Matter....Pages 271-278