Modelling the future
Subtitle: exhibitions and the materiality of education
By: edited by Martin Lawn.
Contributors: Lawn, Martin.
Series: Comparative histories of education; Comparative histories of education
Publisher: Symposium Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781873927274
Subjects: Educational anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies; Material culture; Education -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Cross-cultural studies; Exhibitions -- History; Museums -- Educational aspects -- History; Comparative education
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: 208 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ; Sites of the future : comparing and ordering new educational actualities / Martin Lawn; title: Ethnohistory and materiality of education : in the setting of the universal exhibitions / Agustín Escolano Benito; title: All the world into the school : world's fairs and the emergence of the school museum in the nineteenth century / Eckhardt Fuchs; title: Formation and transformation of education in Japan through exhibitions : focused on the Educational Museum founded in 1877 / Kayoko Komatsu; title: Fashioning writing machines : typewriting and handwriting exhibits at US world's fairs, 1893-1915 / Noah W. Sobe & Carrie B. Rackers; title: Teaching the empire : the weekly Bulletin of empire study and the British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924 / Ian Grosvenor; title: The spectacle of schooling and the construction of the nation in Argentina's participation in world exhibitions, 1867-1889 / Inés Dussel; title: The bull and the book : images of Spain and Spanish education in the world fairs of the nineteenth century / María del Mar del Pozo Andrés; title: More of a school than a show? : events in Glasgow, 1888-1988 / David Limond.