Username Password Aren’t you registered yet?

Chapter 7

Pictures as Historical Sources

 

Introduction

This Chapter, developed by Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (DE), intends to study the definition of iconic terms in historiography and the difference between texts and pictures as historical sources.

The Chapter highlights as a picture is a source sui generis, it is an illustration to texts, but sometimes they give more information than texts. The questions the chapter will try to answer to will be:

- The way to select the sources because not all pictures are interesting for historical research;
- What makes pictures interesting for educational research and for history of education;
- The reason why pictures were and are used in textbooks.

You can either browse on-line the Contents of the Chapter through the interactive index here below, or click here to start the Chapter from the beginning or download the .pdf version of the Chapter contents (English Version - German Version)

 

Index of contents
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
All the project's contents reflect the views only of the author, and the Commission
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.