The Pedagogy of Latrines. A Kaleidoscopic Look at the History of School Bathrooms in Argentina, 1880-1930

Autor/in	Dussel, Inés
Titel	The Pedagogy of Latrines. A Kaleidoscopic Look at the History of School Bathrooms in Argentina, 1880-1930
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 47 (2021) 5, S.576-596 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dussel, Inés)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2021.1956887
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sanitary Facilities; Educational History; Architecture; Educational Facilities Design; School Buildings; Construction Materials; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sanitäre Einrichtung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Architektur; School building; Schulgebäude; Baumaterial; Konstruktionsmittel; Argentinien
Abstract	School bathrooms are liminal spaces where notions about intimacy and one's public persona are configured and where issues such as sex and gender are centrally experienced and proved. These learnings are partially scripted by architectural design and pedagogical rules but not fully captured by them. In this article, I intend to historicise these configurations through an analysis of the trajectories of school bathrooms in Argentina from 1880 to 1930. Grounding on sensorial and material histories of schooling and on architectural and cultural histories, I follow the thread of toilets through school plans, state regulations, photographs, architectural treatises and pedagogical reports. I claim that issues such as the height of doors, the quality of floor and wall materials, the preference for squat or flush-down toilets, or the presence or absence of windows and mirrors, became contested arenas and that they can be projected as fragments of a kaleidoscope, as proposed by Sigfried Giedion, and not as a unified narrative of progress. I conclude that educational research would benefit from paying attention to apparently insignificant elements whose refraction visibilises not the history of purity and civilisation but that of impure hybrids that contained different possibilities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01