The material turn in the History of Education

Authors

  • Diana Gonçalves Vidal Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
  • Wiara Alcântara Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil)

Keywords:

educational heritage, textbooks, technological innovation, curriculum, transnational history, economic history.

Abstract

Written as an introduction to the this dossier on school material culture, this article is organized into three parts. In the first one, it explores the relations between culture and school practices, attempting to outline the initial scenario for these debates. In the second part, it outlines three seminal strands in the studies of the materiality of school: museological or related to the education heritage; technological or related to innovation; and librarial or related to school manuals. Lastly, it presents recent approaches concerning economic history (comprising the history of industry, of patents, of national and international commerce) and the transnational perspective. At the same time, it points out new research challenges regarding the effects of material culture on the social sphere, the history of scientific artefacts intertwined to the history of education and the extension of human agency to the objects.

Key words: educational heritage, textbooks, technological innovation, curriculum, transnational history, economic history.

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Issue

No. 38 (2021): juliol-desembre

Section

Monographic theme

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