Pedagogies of the Image Photo-archives, Cultural Histories, and Post
This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry. Visual objects may help illuminate broader socio-historic
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Hannah M. Tavares
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Hannah M. Tavares
Pedagogies of the Image Photo-archives, Cultural Histories, and Postfoundational Inquiry
Hannah M. Tavares College of Education University of Hawai‘i Honolulu, HI, USA
ISSN 2211-1921 ISSN 2211-193X (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Education ISBN 978-94-017-7617-2 ISBN 978-94-017-7619-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7619-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939960 © The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht
Preface
Pedagogies of the Image was written over the span of several years during which I began to teach a graduate seminar in my department on theories around photography and the use of photographs in studies of education. By “education,” I mean it the way that Levinson (2000) does as a “situated human activity” embedded in everyday social life. The impetus for this book was aroused by a number of encounters I had with different “texts” throughout my graduate studies and later as a university professor teaching in an educational foundations department. The perceptual stimuli revolved around (1) a curiosity in the type of images, from anthropometric photography to tourist photography on ethnic groups that were used in the social science project Temperament and Race during the period when Hawai‘i was a territory of the United States; (2) the production, circulation, and consumption of images of “Filipinos” for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair in America; (3) an unremitting attraction to several images from my female heritage including a reproduction of a 1897 school portrait of the first graduating class of the Kamehameha Schools for Girls; (4) the random
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