Ian Grosvenor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 178977 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian Grosvenor |
| NOMBRES | Ian |
| APELLIDO | Grosvenor |
| FIRMA | GROSVENOR I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8557-1272 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Can the arts change ways of thinking about History of Education?”
Introducción
Another way of seeing” education pasts and presents
La memoria educativa de los documentales como confrontación a los pasados totalitarios
Después de la realización de los proyectos de investigación sobre los documentales de temática educativa producidos en España entre 1914-1939 y 1939-1970, se han constatado diferentes silencios y rumores que afectan tanto a la memoria como a la historia de la educación. Sabiendo que estos silencios y rumores se aplicaban sistemáticamente como política estatal y que afectaban tanto a la población vulnerable como a los intentos de cambio del sistem…
What does this have to do with everything else?” An ecological reading of the impact of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on education
The question “What does this have to do with everything else?” refers to ecological thinking. In this article, we use an ecological approach to explore the interrelationships between the incidence of the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, its trajectories and impacts on education. Our emphasis on children and their environment, as specific ecological arrangements, allows the mapping of associated social, institutional, cultural and material contexts …
Histories of the past and histories of the future
The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of the 2020s not only marked a dramatic moment in world health, but also the start of manifold and entangled global crises that seem to define a watershed moment with severe effects on education. Pandemics we know are recurrent events. Faced with COVID-19 some historians have looked to previous pandemics to understand the nature of the disease and its trajectory, and how previous generations have dealt with …
On silent feet
In 1966 the photographer Martine Franck was commissioned by Life International to document the experiences of children in a new library in Paris. The visual essay she produced illuminated the materiality, the design and the children’s use of the space. In Birmingham, a recent unconnected research project, ‘Libraries in Women’s Lives’, captured women’s childhood memories of libraries. The women’s ‘spatial stories’ (de Certeau, 1984) offer reflecti…
‘Dirt and the child’
In the nineteenth century city child rescuers developed ‘a taxonomy of space’ in which geography determined destiny. The privatised spaces of the middle classes were contrasted with the ‘dirt, disease and delinquency’ of the slums. Yet at the same time as ‘dirt’ was viewed as ‘destructive’ and proof of urban neglect it was also accepted in the form of rural soil to be ‘fertile’ and central to helping sustain life. This paper explores the emergenc…
Can art save the world?’ The colonial experience and pedagogies of display
The quote in the title of this paper is taken from the first line of Marc Depaepe’s article “An Agenda for the History of Colonial Education”, published in The Colonial Experience in Education (Ghent, 1995). This presentation takes as its focus the informal learning space of the museum and the art gallery, and the emergence in recent years of curatorial activism. It seeks to explore the changing discourse and politics around addressing through di…
Learning to make sense
In this introductory essay we examine through a ‘temporally inflected lens’ some of the complex entanglements of learning, senses, and sense making; body-sensory experience and practice; and culture and society. We thereby aim to bring into dialogue inter-/multisensorial approaches to education as a project and praxis and processes of ‘enculturation’, which have always, in one way or the other, involved ‘embodied’ learning (and imaginaries thereo…
Children, Propaganda and War, 1914-1918
Desde 2014 ha habido a lo largo de Europa diversos programas conmemorativos de los acontecimientos que marcaron la Gran Guerra de 1914-1918. Uno de estos eventos fue la temprana exposición de fotografías Paris 14-18, la guerre au quotidien que tuvo lugar en la Galerie des Bibliothéques de París. Todas las fotografías habían sido tomadas por Charles Lansiaux, y versaban sobre la vida cotidiana en la ciudad desde el reclutamiento y salida de los so…
Making Education
Learning through culture
In Radical Education and the Common School (2011), Michael Field and Peter Moss argue for a radical alternative to the failed and dysfunctional contemporary discourse about education and the school with its focus on markets, competition, instrumentality, standardisation, and managerialism. They argue that it is necessary, if we are to progress “social alternatives” in education, to construct micro-histories of schools that have developed as “real…
Questioning difference
In his 2001 Different: Contemporary Photography and Black Identity Stuart Hall, writing on black arts in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, commented on the emergence of the "black body" as a subject of visibility and identity which challenged the racialised body which for so long had been produced and reproduced by racial discourse. "On the site of the body", he wrote, "racial discourses had long undertaken the work of systematically reducing histor…
Laboratory / laboratoire / labor
The School I'd Like
‘Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. -French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.fr In 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called ‘The School I'd Like’, in which young people were asked to imagine their ideal school. This vibrant and compelling book presents material drawn from that com…
Photography as an agent of transformation
Radical political activism in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on documentary photography in Britain. Community organisations and photography collectives emerged and endeavoured to democratise the arts for those who would not otherwise have come into contact with them. Community photography used the technology to break down the barriers between artist and audience. It involved participation in the production of ideas and meanings, the active…
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914
Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite and the spaces of revolt
In this article we will contribute to the contemporary theoretical debate about film by considering, from a history-of-education perspective, the film Zéro de conduite by Jean Vigo (1905–1934). This film is classified under the umbrella of “poetic realism”: a product of cinéma de gauche and an avant-gardist, surrealist and anarchist-catalogued film by a film-maker described by many as very talented and creative. The paper is divided into five par…
The Steward Street School experiment
This article presents a critical case study of an inner city state school that for a decade (1940s–1950s) attracted the interest of a wide contingency of educationalists, policy makers, researchers, artists and various press and film media. It has been argued that if we are to progress ‘social alternatives’ in education, researchers need to construct ‘critical case studies of possibilities’ drawing inspiration from traces of experimental and utop…
Moving frontiers of empire
Over the past two decades there has been a growing interest in the exploration of “transnational history”. This work has focused in general on understanding the “movement, ebb and circulation” of i
Seeing through touch
This article examines the changing material world of the visually impaired child and the ways in which this has been viewed and understood by scholars, philosophers, educators and other commentators over time. It describes and analyses tactile encounters as they have been planned for by educators, museum curators and others, from the Age of the Enlightenment until the present day. It takes as its starting point a recent blog that appeared online …
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
Books
The Hearing School
In recent years sensory history has emerged as a research topic of growing interest to historians and has been accompanied by a call to incorporate the senses into our understanding of the past. Under modernity, social direction and control were built into the infrastructure of modern life as specialist institutions emerged and multiplied in the urban landscape; institutions which were designed to discipline, control and shape urban bodies – the …
Education in motion
This paper explores the challenges for social and cultural historians of education of using documentary films on schools and schooling as a research resource. It draws upon the outcomes of the British Academy-funded Documentary Film in Educational Research project, an international study that focused on developing methodological frameworks for researching school documentaries. The paper offers definitions of the notion of documentary and consider…
Learning to make sense
In this introductory essay we examine through a ‘temporally inflected lens’ some of the complex entanglements of learning, senses, and sense making; body-sensory experience and practice; and culture and society. We thereby aim to bring into dialogue inter-/multisensorial approaches to education as a project and praxis and processes of ‘enculturation’, which have always, in one way or the other, involved ‘embodied’ learning (and imaginaries thereo…
The Hearing School
In recent years sensory history has emerged as a research topic of growing interest to historians and has been accompanied by a call to incorporate the senses into our understanding of the past. Under modernity, social direction and control were built into the infrastructure of modern life as specialist institutions emerged and multiplied in the urban landscape; institutions which were designed to discipline, control and shape urban bodies – the …
Making Education
Education in motion
This paper explores the challenges for social and cultural historians of education of using documentary films on schools and schooling as a research resource. It draws upon the outcomes of the British Academy-funded Documentary Film in Educational Research project, an international study that focused on developing methodological frameworks for researching school documentaries. The paper offers definitions of the notion of documentary and consider…
Photography as an agent of transformation
Radical political activism in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on documentary photography in Britain. Community organisations and photography collectives emerged and endeavoured to democratise the arts for those who would not otherwise have come into contact with them. Community photography used the technology to break down the barriers between artist and audience. It involved participation in the production of ideas and meanings, the active…
Seeing through touch
This article examines the changing material world of the visually impaired child and the ways in which this has been viewed and understood by scholars, philosophers, educators and other commentators over time. It describes and analyses tactile encounters as they have been planned for by educators, museum curators and others, from the Age of the Enlightenment until the present day. It takes as its starting point a recent blog that appeared online …
Geographies of risk
In recent years geographical concepts and the geography lexicon have been used in different disciplines to explore the diffusion and circulation of ideas and it is increasingly commonplace for academics to speak of a “geography of knowledge”. Little systematic work has been undertaken by historians of education using spatialised approaches to consider the emergence and circulation of educational knowledge. The circulation of knowledge, and an exa…
Visualising disability in the past
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like ‘race’, class and gender. 1 1 See, for example, Catherine J. Kudlick, “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763–793. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool fo…
Learning through culture
In Radical Education and the Common School (2011), Michael Field and Peter Moss argue for a radical alternative to the failed and dysfunctional contemporary discourse about education and the school with its focus on markets, competition, instrumentality, standardisation, and managerialism. They argue that it is necessary, if we are to progress “social alternatives” in education, to construct micro-histories of schools that have developed as “real…
The Art of Seeing’
We teach them the craft of word‐spinning. The damage is done, we should be teaching them the art of seeing. (Frank Pick) In 1937 the Council for Art and Industry sponsored a national exhibition in London of materials ‘for use in connection with teaching in elementary schools’. Local Education Authorities were encouraged to send representatives to the exhibition as a means of developing ‘a line of approach ... to ensure that what is used in the el…
Imagining a Project
This paper is concerned with the creation of new forms of historical research in education which uses and reflects the changes in methodology and substantive concerns of other disciplines across the shifting boundaries of scholarly work on the social. It is based upon a practice developed out of a series of international seminars and an unfunded research proposal. It is an attempt to use contemporary theory in cultural studies, geography and the …
Children, Propaganda and War, 1914-1918
Desde 2014 ha habido a lo largo de Europa diversos programas conmemorativos de los acontecimientos que marcaron la Gran Guerra de 1914-1918. Uno de estos eventos fue la temprana exposición de fotografías Paris 14-18, la guerre au quotidien que tuvo lugar en la Galerie des Bibliothéques de París. Todas las fotografías habían sido tomadas por Charles Lansiaux, y versaban sobre la vida cotidiana en la ciudad desde el reclutamiento y salida de los so…
Questioning difference
In his 2001 Different: Contemporary Photography and Black Identity Stuart Hall, writing on black arts in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, commented on the emergence of the "black body" as a subject of visibility and identity which challenged the racialised body which for so long had been produced and reproduced by racial discourse. "On the site of the body", he wrote, "racial discourses had long undertaken the work of systematically reducing histor…
Moving frontiers of empire
Over the past two decades there has been a growing interest in the exploration of “transnational history”. This work has focused in general on understanding the “movement, ebb and circulation” of i
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
Birmingham Stories
Over the last decade research on the history of ethnic minority migrant communities in Birmingham and the west midlands has grown, with investigations looking at post-war migration and settlement; 'race' thinking and racism; social movements and community activists; faith communities; national identity; issues of surveillance; the local state; public histories and narratives of the city; urban histories and sources; and visual evidence and histor…
Seen but not Heard’
This article looks at two modern institutions designed to discipline and control urban bodies—the school and the asylum—and the records they produced and the young people whose moral and cognitive capacities they tended. Both institutions are the sites of past childhood stories, yet the lives experienced in them are essentially anonymous. The focus of historians has been on engaging with the 'voices' of the official policy makers, professionals a…
Imaging Past Schooling
(2000). Imaging Past Schooling: The Necessity for Montage. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 71-85
Academic Hares on the Hillside of Imperialism
(1994). Academic Hares on the Hillside of Imperialism. Curriculum Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 263-268
Faith in the City”
This paper will offer a preliminary narrative of the role of religious agencies in the campaigns against racism in education in 1960s Britain. The narrative is divided into two parts: in the first, the response of indigenous faith communities will be surveyed, in the second, the activities of one faith community of the Asian diaspora in organising resistance to racism in education will be documented. In both instances evidence will be drawn, wher…
Imagining a Project
This paper is concerned with the creation of new forms of historical research in education which uses and reflects the changes in methodology and substantive concerns of other disciplines across the shifting boundaries of scholarly work on the social. It is based upon a practice developed out of a series of international seminars and an unfunded research proposal. It is an attempt to use contemporary theory in cultural studies, geography and the …
Imaging Past Schooling
(2000). Imaging Past Schooling: The Necessity for Montage. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 71-85
Unpacking my Library”
In recentyears as the works of Walter Benjamin, the German‐Jewish cultural critic and philosopher, have become more widely available in translation commentaries have emerged which focus on what his writings have to offer current practices of cultural history. Benjamin was an avid collector of children's books. He also wrote extensively on children's literature, forgotten children's stories, the compulsion and cultures of book collecting and about…
The School I'd Like
In 2001, The Guardian launched a competition called The School I'd Like, in which young people were asked to imagine their ideal school. This vibrant, groundbreaking book presents material drawn from that competition, offering a unique snapshot of perceptions of today's schools by those who matter most - the pupils. The book is wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans. Placing their views in the centre of t…
Urbanisation and Education
(2003). Urbanisation and Education: The City as a Light and Beacon? Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Debate
spaces have multiplied, been broken up and have diversified. There are spaces today of every kind and every size, for every use and every function. To live is to pass from one space to another, w
The Art of Seeing’
We teach them the craft of word‐spinning. The damage is done, we should be teaching them the art of seeing. (Frank Pick) In 1937 the Council for Art and Industry sponsored a national exhibition in London of materials ‘for use in connection with teaching in elementary schools’. Local Education Authorities were encouraged to send representatives to the exhibition as a means of developing ‘a line of approach ... to ensure that what is used in the el…
The progressive image in the history of education
This article explores the typology of photographic images of school and schooling used by historians who have developed visual methodologies in their research and scholarship over recent years. The authors consider the question, raised by a number of scholars, concerning the value of image‐based research and the capacity of the visual alone to produce new knowledge aside from other traditional sources. The 'progressive image' is discussed as one …
Seen but not Heard’
This article looks at two modern institutions designed to discipline and control urban bodies—the school and the asylum—and the records they produced and the young people whose moral and cognitive capacities they tended. Both institutions are the sites of past childhood stories, yet the lives experienced in them are essentially anonymous. The focus of historians has been on engaging with the 'voices' of the official policy makers, professionals a…
Visualising disability in the past
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like ‘race’, class and gender. 1 1 See, for example, Catherine J. Kudlick, “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763–793. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool fo…
Geographies of risk
In recent years geographical concepts and the geography lexicon have been used in different disciplines to explore the diffusion and circulation of ideas and it is increasingly commonplace for academics to speak of a “geography of knowledge”. Little systematic work has been undertaken by historians of education using spatialised approaches to consider the emergence and circulation of educational knowledge. The circulation of knowledge, and an exa…
Books
The Hearing School
In recent years sensory history has emerged as a research topic of growing interest to historians and has been accompanied by a call to incorporate the senses into our understanding of the past. Under modernity, social direction and control were built into the infrastructure of modern life as specialist institutions emerged and multiplied in the urban landscape; institutions which were designed to discipline, control and shape urban bodies – the …
Education in motion
This paper explores the challenges for social and cultural historians of education of using documentary films on schools and schooling as a research resource. It draws upon the outcomes of the British Academy-funded Documentary Film in Educational Research project, an international study that focused on developing methodological frameworks for researching school documentaries. The paper offers definitions of the notion of documentary and consider…
Birmingham Stories
Over the last decade research on the history of ethnic minority migrant communities in Birmingham and the west midlands has grown, with investigations looking at post-war migration and settlement; 'race' thinking and racism; social movements and community activists; faith communities; national identity; issues of surveillance; the local state; public histories and narratives of the city; urban histories and sources; and visual evidence and histor…
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
The Steward Street School experiment
This article presents a critical case study of an inner city state school that for a decade (1940s–1950s) attracted the interest of a wide contingency of educationalists, policy makers, researchers, artists and various press and film media. It has been argued that if we are to progress ‘social alternatives’ in education, researchers need to construct ‘critical case studies of possibilities’ drawing inspiration from traces of experimental and utop…
Moving frontiers of empire
Over the past two decades there has been a growing interest in the exploration of “transnational history”. This work has focused in general on understanding the “movement, ebb and circulation” of i
Seeing through touch
This article examines the changing material world of the visually impaired child and the ways in which this has been viewed and understood by scholars, philosophers, educators and other commentators over time. It describes and analyses tactile encounters as they have been planned for by educators, museum curators and others, from the Age of the Enlightenment until the present day. It takes as its starting point a recent blog that appeared online …
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914
Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite and the spaces of revolt
In this article we will contribute to the contemporary theoretical debate about film by considering, from a history-of-education perspective, the film Zéro de conduite by Jean Vigo (1905–1934). This film is classified under the umbrella of “poetic realism”: a product of cinéma de gauche and an avant-gardist, surrealist and anarchist-catalogued film by a film-maker described by many as very talented and creative. The paper is divided into five par…
The School I'd Like
‘Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. -French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.fr In 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called ‘The School I'd Like’, in which young people were asked to imagine their ideal school. This vibrant and compelling book presents material drawn from that com…
Photography as an agent of transformation
Radical political activism in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on documentary photography in Britain. Community organisations and photography collectives emerged and endeavoured to democratise the arts for those who would not otherwise have come into contact with them. Community photography used the technology to break down the barriers between artist and audience. It involved participation in the production of ideas and meanings, the active…
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