Traveling Zoos as Knowledge Mediators?
In recent years, historians of knowledge have been exploring a wide range of knowledge forms that move beyond scientific/learned knowledge.
Tagged: education
Bounded Rationality and the History of Knowledge
A Frontier in the History of Knowledge In September 2021, Peter Burke gave a talk at Lund University in which he spoke about the challenges that historians of knowledge face as we attempt to...
Organizing Impulses: Reframing Adventure as Global Knowledge for Young Readers in Precolonial Germany (1841–1862)
“The role of the educator is to rhythmize the soul to [moral] virtue.”1 This conclusion to his 1841 faculty address to the Königliche Realschule zu Berlin captures the spirit of Theodor Dielitz’s educational philosophy....
The Dr. Seuss Controversy and the Serious Business of Curating Knowledge of the World for Children
On March 2, 2021, the 117th birthday of Theodor Geisel, the children’s book author and illustrator behind the Dr. Seuss pseudonym, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that it would “cease publication and licensing” of six...
Classical Knowledge, Power, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Rabbinic Education
Tell me, o Muse, of the man … (Homer)
Francis Bacons belief that knowledge is power is one of the great epistemic mottos of all time. In early nineteenth-century Jewish Amsterdam, where civic emancipation had overturned the old corporate hierarchies, the rabbinic elite soon came to experience its merciless truth…. Continue reading
The Duty to Know: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Catechisms and Manuals and the Making of Jewish Religious Knowledge
In 1878 Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882), probably the most famous nineteenth-century German-Jewish painter, created a work entitled The Heder, or Jewish Elementary School, which re-imagined his first school in Hanau near Frankfurt am Main...
The Book Will Kill the Edifice? Mechanics Manuals and Learning to Draw in the Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century
In Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo (1802–1885) wrote, “the book will kill the edifice.” Spoken by Archdeacon Claude Frollo, this phrase signified the view that the Renaissance was “that setting sun we mistake for...
Lesson about Thanksgiving Day
Thursday is a big holiday in the United States, where we are located, so this blog will be quiet until next week. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thanksgiving Day lesson, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1899–1900, by Francis Benjamin Johnston, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97507246/.[/caption]
Knowledge and Citizenship
Caryn McTighe Musil at the Association of American Colleges and Universities has written a short programatic article on what the humanities can offer in current disputes over immigration in the United States. Her recommendation...
History of Knowledge Forum in GHI Bulletin
The Fall 2016 issue of the free access GHI Bulletin includes a thematic forum on the history of knowledge with the following three articles:
- “The History of Knowledge and the Expansion of the Historical Research Agenda. by Simone Lässig
- “Old and New Orders of Knowledge in Modern Jewish History” by Kerstin von der Krone
- “Data, Diplomacy, and Liberalism: August Ferdinand Lueder’s Critique of German Descriptive Statistics” by Anna Echterhölter
For more on this image, see p. 30 of Simone Lässig’s article.[/caption]
