Picture Archives and the Emergence of Visual History of Education

One of the characteristic features of modern life is the omnipresence of images - in public life as well as in the private surroundings. At latest with coining the term "Visual history" at the beginning of the nineteen nineties historical disciplines are dealing with this ever growing pool of pictorial sources. This is also true for educational history - especially when keeping in mind that the use of images in an educational context is common practice since early modern ages. This concerns the presentation practices, the design of didactic visual media and their use in educational practice as well as the illustrated traces of historical educational practice and historical educational knowledge (e.g. photographs of school buildings or educational scenes).
There are various digital picture archives to address the research questions of many historical disciplines. These databases, though, differ widely in purpose and design - and of course they cannot serve every scientific demand. According to Gerhard Paul there should be at least four layers of information evaluation when analysing historical images (reality of depiction, genesis, use and impact). Thus, building up a corpus of image sources with sufficient accompanying information can be quite challenging. As major topic the Pre-Conference Workshop will focus on the impact of the discipline on developing and maintaining of a picture archive. Are there key prerequisites for a picture archive on educational history? In how far can existing data archives meet the needs? What do the different data archives offer and how are they used? What is their strength and weakness in regard to a comprehensive analysis? Can they meet the demands of the visual history of education? Is there a need for another solution? Are there common basic requirements?
Proceedings

Kollmann, Stefanie [Hrsg.], Müller, Lars [Hrsg.], Reh, Sabine [Hrsg.], Dane, Jacques [Hrsg.], Ruiten, Tijs van [Hrsg.]:
Picture archives and the emergence of visual history of education. ISCHE 40 pre-conference workshop. 3rd workshop "Pictura Paedagogica Online: educational knowledge in images"
Berlin : BBF, Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF 2018, 92 S.
Programm

Tijs van Ruiten Oud Goud.
Jacques Dane The Biblical School Wallcharts in the Collection of the National Museum of Education, The Netherlands, 1850-1950.
Liane Strauß History Wallcharts Crossing Borders - The Series "Schoolplaten voor de Vaderlandse Geschiedenis" in Germany.
Sandy Eleanor Brewer Macmillan's Nature Classroom Pictures: How the Complications of Copyright Impede the Development of Digitised Archives.
Panna Berta-Szénási Decoration in the Classroom.
Meng (Stella) Wang A Visual History of Colonial School Architecture in Hong Kong 1921-1941.
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann Where Fandom Meets Science: Comic Archives, Comic Databases and the History of Education.
Sjaak Braster and María del Mar del Pozo Andrés Engravings as a Blind Spot in the History of Education. Notes about a Private Collection.
Gwendolin Schneider and Bettina Irina Reimers DigiPortA.
Stefanie Kollmann and Lars Müller Imagining the World.
Chanjong Im, Thomas Mandl, Wiebke Helm, Sebastian Schmideler Automatic Image Processing in the Digital Humanities: A Pre-study for Children Books in the 19th Century.
Lars Wieneke and Gerben Zaagsma Digital Resources and Tools in Historical Research.