Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately understood only in relation to, and as an extension and adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from which they emerged.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Collections, Collectors and the Collecting of Knowledge in Education
Peter Carrier and Anke Hertling
Section I: Collectors and Collecting
Chapter 1. The Polish School Museum in Lviv and its Legacy in the Poznań University Library
Anna Maria Harbig
Chapter 2. The History and Singularity of a Government Library: The Collection of Educational Historical Printed Materials at the Austrian Ministry of Education
Walter Kissling, Ernst Chorherr and Christian Treinen
Chapter 3. Private Primer Collecting: An Aid or a Hindrance to Public Collections?
Wendelin Sroka
Chapter 4. Collecting Professional Pedagogical Knowledge around 1900: Adolph Rebhuhn and the German School Museum (later called the German Teachers’ Library)
Monika Mattes
Section II: Objects, Materials, and Old and New Media
Chapter 5. The Glass Slide Collection of the German Rural Residential Schools Association (Verband Deutscher Schullandheime e.V.)
Bettina Reimers
Chapter 6. Collecting and Using Audiovisual Educational Aids from East Germany
Kerrin Klinger and Ulrich Ruedel
Chapter 7. The Wall Chart Collection of the Danish National Museum of Education between Dissolution and Preservation
Lea Cecilie Bennedsen and Anette Eklund Hansen
Chapter 8. Collecting and Accessing Curricula at the Georg Eckert Institute
Adriana Madej-Stang
Section III: Access and Acquisition
Chapter 9. From the Critical Study of Jewish History and Culture to ‘‘Enemy Research’’ and Provenance Research. The Library of the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary
Jenka Fuchs
Chapter 10. Collecting Data towards Writing the History of China’s Socialist Education
Zhipeng Gao
Chapter 11. Accessing and Acquiring Textbooks for Research
Heather Sharp
Chapter 12. Locating the History Textbooks of the Late Ottoman Empire
Ömür Şans-Yıldırım
Postface: Collecting Literacy when Gathering, Storing and Disseminating Educational Materials
Peter Carrier
