Public History between the Scylla of Academic History and the Charybdis of History as a Show: A Personal and Institutional Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Towards A Public History of Education: A Manifesto 1
5. Musealization
6. Like a Voice in the Wilderness? Striving for a Responsible Handling of the Educational Heritage 39
7. Life after the Apology: Making the Unspeakable Visible 59
8. Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Representation of Soviet Childhood in the Museums of Latvia 77
9. Public History between the Scylla of Academic History and the Charybdis of History as a Show: A Personal and Institutional Experience 91
10. Public Voices and Teachers’ Identities: Exploring the Visitors’ Book of a School Memory Exhibition 109
11. Flowers on a Grave: Memories of a Hidden, but Not Forgotten, School (Hi)story 133
12. Exhibiting
13. Story Telling through Fine Art: Public Histories of Childhood and Education in Exhibitions in the Netherlands and Belgium C. 1980 – C. 2020 157
14. Future Pasts: Web Archives and Public History as Challenges for Historians of Education in Times of COVID-19 177
15. Conserving the Past, Learning from the Past: Art, Science and London’s National Gallery 197
16. Art, Anti-fascism, and the Evolution of a “Propaganda of the Imagination”: The Artists International Association 1933–1945 217
17. Exhibiting the Past: Women in Art and Design in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 239
18. Picturing School Architecture: Monumentalization and Modernist Angles in the Photographs of School Spaces, 1880–1920 263
19. Storytelling
20. Memories of Harm in Institutions of Care: The Dutch Historiography of Institutional Child Abuse from a Comparative Perspective 289
21. Exhibiting Teachers’ Hands: Storytelling Based on a Private Collection of Engravings 309
22. Rocking Horses as Peripheral Objects in Pedagogies of Childhood: An Imagined Exhibition 333
23. On the Trail of the Toucan: A Travelogue about A Peregrination in Educational History 357
24. Reflections of a Textbook Writer 381
25. Making Teacher Union History “Public”: The British Columbia (Canada) Teachers’ Union, and Its “Online Museum” 399
26. The Pedagogical Press and the Public Debate about Schooling 417
27. Note on the Editors 441
28. List of Contributors 443