"Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways inwhich people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately understood onlyin relation to, and as an extension and adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from which they emerged"--
Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately understood only in relation to, and as an extension and adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from which they emerged.
Introduction: Collections, Collectors and the Collecting of Knowledge in
Education
Peter Carrier and Anke Hertling
Section I: Collectors and Collecting
Chapter
1. The Polish School Museum in Lviv and its Legacy in the Pozna
University Library
Anna Maria Harbig
Chapter
2. The History and Singularity of a Government Library: The
Collection of Educational Historical Printed Materials at the Austrian
Ministry of Education
Walter Kissling, Ernst Chorherr and Christian Treinen
Chapter
3. Private Primer Collecting: An Aid or a Hindrance to Public
Collections?
Wendelin Sroka
Chapter
4. Collecting Professional Pedagogical Knowledge around 1900: Adolph
Rebhuhn and the German School Museum (later called the German Teachers
Library)
Monika Mattes
Section II: Objects, Materials, and Old and New Media
Chapter
5. The Glass Slide Collection of the German Rural Residential
Schools Association (Verband Deutscher Schullandheime e.V.)
Bettina Reimers
Chapter
6. Collecting and Using Audiovisual Educational Aids from East
Germany
Kerrin Klinger and Ulrich Ruedel
Chapter
7. The Wall Chart Collection of the Danish National Museum of
Education between Dissolution and Preservation
Lea Cecilie Bennedsen and Anette Eklund Hansen
Chapter
8. Collecting and Accessing Curricula at the Georg Eckert Institute
Adriana Madej-Stang
Section III: Access and Acquisition
Chapter
9. From the Critical Study of Jewish History and Culture to Enemy
Research and Provenance Research. The Library of the Breslau Rabbinical
Seminary
Jenka Fuchs
Chapter
10. Collecting Data towards Writing the History of Chinas Socialist
Education
Zhipeng Gao
Chapter
11. Accessing and Acquiring Textbooks for Research
Heather Sharp
Chapter
12. Locating the History Textbooks of the Late Ottoman Empire
Ömür ans-Yldrm
Postface: Collecting Literacy when Gathering, Storing and Disseminating
Educational Materials
Peter Carrier
Anke Hertling is deputy director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, where she serves as head of the research library. She is the author of Eroberung der Männerdomäne Automobil: Die Selbstfahrerinnen Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Erika Mann und Annemarie Schwarzenbach (2013), and co-editor of Körper Verkörperung Entkörperung (2005).
