Pedagogies of the Image

Synopsis

This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in acritical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinaryconventions of the field of educational inquiry. Visual objects may helpilluminate broader socio-historical events and logics that are deeply entwinedwith education yet remain marginal to or "outside" of what constitutes itsdomain of study. In this work photographicimages are treated as resources for re-visioning the founding disciplinaryobjects of educational studies by reorienting its proper objects of study,traditional archives, persistent categories, frames of reference, and acceptedportals of research and inquiry. A theoretic framingshapes the question taken up in this work, "How might an engagement with photo-archives open new horizons inthe study of education from a postfoundationalist, multi-theoretic andcross-disciplinary perspective?" The author constructsa rather unconventional vantage point to explore this question that opens on tothe discursive spaces of three photographs made of three women in the years1897, 1949, and 1966. The photographs are analysed from three theoreticapproaches. First, it is indicated how each photographic image not only marks arelationship to the past, the present, and the future but to the rules andconventions of photographic practices. These particular images give anaccount of what both persists and exceeds the photographic image, and permit torewrite the bodies and lives pictured. Second, the subject matter of eachphotographic image while singular and local bears witness to the complexnetwork of racial, patriarchal and colonial logics and their profoundimbrication with a "technically mediated inscription. " For alltheir singularity the photographs cannot but evoke their relation to the deeplyhistorical character of photography. Finally, the photographs make possible anaccount of broader occurrences, subterranean histories, contexts, anddifferently situated experiences that illuminate, much like the principle ofmontage, a sequence of overlapping events crosscutting with one anotherconsequently throwing open the possibility of responding to and transformingthe histories and archives we are given.

Copyright:

2016

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789401776196

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

Date of Addition:

09/12/16

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education

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