Touching, Feeling, Smelling, and Sensing History through Objects: New Opportunities from the 'Material Turn'

Autor/inn/en	Bird, Michael; Wilson, Katherine Anne; Egan-Simon, Daryn; Jackson, Alannah; Kirkup, Richard
Titel	Touching, Feeling, Smelling, and Sensing History through Objects: New Opportunities from the 'Material Turn'
Quelle	In: Teaching History, (2020) 181, S. 40-48 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-0610
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; History Instruction; Teaching Methods; Sensory Experience; Information Sources; Historians; Networks; Art History; Interdisciplinary Approach; Museums; Preservice Teachers; Student Attitudes; College Faculty; Teacher Workshops; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Discussion (Teaching Technique); United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Sinnerfahrung; Information source; Informationsquelle; Historian; Historiker; History of art; History of arts; Kunstgeschichte; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Schülerverhalten; Fakultät; Ausland; Sekundarschüler
Abstract	Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the 'everyday' objects of ordinary life. Building on a funded research network that brought together academic history and art history departments, Michael Bird and his co-authors worked with museum curators and trainee teachers to bring artefacts from the rich (but often overlooked) collections of their local museum into schools. The article shows how carefully structured support as pupils handled the objects created a highly inclusive and absorbing learning environment. Pupils' sense of respect, engendered by the authenticity of the objects, gave rise to highly productive forms of speculation, appropriately tempered by the contextual knowledge shared with them. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01