History of Education Society Annual Conference 2015 – Liverpool Hope University (Creative Campus)
Science, Technologies and Material Culture in the History of Education
FRI 20th NOV
9.00-9.30
REGISTRATION (Cornerstone Foyer)
SESSION 1
Great Hall
Science and Education for the Home
Betül Açikgöz (Fatih University, Instanbul):
The Advent of Scientific Housewifery in the Ottoman
Empire
Lorraine Portelli (University of Malta):
Domestic Science in the Twentieth Century: The Maltese
Experience
9.30-11.00
Bridget Egan & Joyce Goodman (Winchester):
“Do Play with Your Food, Janet” (Egan, 1999) - Revisited
Capstone 207
Specimens, Objects and Technologies in Medical and
Anatomical Education
Capstone Theatre
Science, Politics and Educational Thought
Henrik Eßler (University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf):
Moulages as Educational Technology in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Scientific Culture
Pierre Verschueren (Paris- Sorbonne):
Webs of sciences. A Network Analysis of Change in an
Academic Field : The Case of the Physical Sciences in
France from 1944 to 1968.
James McKinstry (Durham):
To Cut, Look, and Question: Teaching about ‘New’ Bodies in
Early-Modern Dissections
Christina Rothen (Zurich):
Educational Administration and the Influence of Social
Science in Switzerland, 1960-1980
Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard):
Whose Body is this? Tourism and the Anatomical Specimen
in Revolutionary France
Rosie Germain (Liverpool Hope)
The Social History of Academic Philosophers in Britain,
1870-1970
Chair: Mark Freeman
Chair: John Taylor
Chair: Heather Ellis
11.00-11.30
COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Cornerstone Foyer)
SESSION 2
Great Hall
11.30 -1.30
Capstone 207
Capstone Theatre
Academics, Public Intellectuals and Universities
Technologies of Writing, Science and Identity
The Use of Objects in the Teaching of Science
Lottie Hoare (Cambridge):
Dons not Clowns: Isaiah Berlin Challenges Richard
Cawston’s Edit of the Educator
Catherine Sloan (Oxford):
Juvenile Publishing and Peer Cultures at the Manchester
Grammar School, 1890-1902
Nicolas Robin (St. Gallen):
Scientific Teaching Collections as Educational Research
Artefacts
John Taylor (Liverpool):
New Priorities and Changing Structures: The Impact of
the First World War on Research in British Universities
Craig Spence (Bishop Grosseteste University):
Learning about Space in the Space Age: Exploring a Junior
School’s ‘Pathway to the Moon’ Scrap Book of 1969
Sue Howarth (Worcester):
Teaching Biology, Thinking Wider
Alex Clarkson (KCL):
Russian Dreams and Prussian Ghosts: Immanuel Kant
University, Kaliningrad
Tom Woodin (UCL Institute of Education):
Technologies of Writing and the Self in the 1970s
Melisse Thomas Bailey-Ellis (University of Trinidad and
Tobago):
Forgotten Science: A History of First Peoples’ Science
Education in Trinidad and Tobago, 1970 to Present
Chair: Mark Freeman
Eugene Kang (Pusan National University, South Korea):
On the Historical Development and Pluralistic
Approach towards the Concept of Electricity in
Secondary-School Science
Lindy Moore (Independent researcher)
Promoting Science in the Curriculum: the initiative of
the Scottish ‘Young Ladies’ Institutions’ in the 1830s
and 1840s
Chair: Stephanie Spencer
Chair: Heather Ellis
1.30-2.30
LUNCH (Great Hall)
Great Hall
Science, Knowledge and the Domestic Space
2.30-4.00
Katie Carpenter (Royal Holloway):
Knowledge and Expertise of Mistress and Servant in the
English Kitchen, 1870-1914
SESSION 3
Capstone 207
Science and Pedagogical Method in the History of
Education
Gary McCulloch (UCL Institute of Education):
From Armstrong to Nuffield: Scientific Discovery, Learning
and the History of Education
Joanna Behrman (Johns Hopkins):
Physics Domesticated: Introductory Physics Textbooks for
Women in Home Economics, 1910s-1950s
Tom Quick (Leeds):
Moving, Seeing and Learning in Cinematographic Liverpool
Heather Ellis (Sheffield):
The Scholar, the Gentleman and the Scientist:
John Field (Stirling):
‘Mechanised Mr Chips’: Programmed Instruction in Britain,
Capstone Theatre
Science, Play and Recreation
Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich):
Space, Skill, and Technology: International
Perspectives on Children’s Experiences of Play,
Recreation and Education in Hospital, 1850-1950
Amy Palmer (Roehampton):
“A pleasant way of teaching the little ones to recognize
flowers”: Froebelian Educators and the Use of Drama
in Nature Lessons, 1892-1939
Constructing Scientific Identity in Early 19th Century
Britain
1955-1970
Siân Roberts (Birmingham):
Improvisation and Experimentation: Upwood
Residential War Nursery, 1940-5
Chair: Jonathan Doney
Chair: Nancy Rosoff
Chair: Jonathan Reinarz
4.00-5.00
‘HOW TO GET PUBLISHED’ SESSION (Great Hall)
Catherine Watts (Routledge)
Mark Freeman (History of Education journal)
Rob Freathy and Jonathan Doney (History of Education Researcher)
5.00-6.00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 (Great Hall)
Professor Ruth Watts (Birmingham)
Science and Public Understanding: The Role of the Historian of Education
Chair: Heather Ellis
DRINKS RECEPTION (Cornerstone Foyer)
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis
BUFFET DINNER (Great Hall)
6.00-6.45
7.00
SAT 21ST NOV
Grace Room
School Buildings, Classroom Design and Educational
Objects
SESSION 4
Cornerstone 110
Science and Educational Reform
Cornerstone 106
Educational Technologies in Teaching and Research
Silvia Muller (Rutgers):
Charles C. Andrews and the 1820 “Hydro-Geographic
Map”
9.00-11.00
Marianne Helfenberger (Zurich):
Technical, Architectural and Pedagogical Transfer
about School Buildings in Switzerland, between 1830
and 1930
James Elwick (York University, Toronto):
How to Cheat on a Victorian Chemistry Exam
Robert Anderson (Edinburgh):
A Scientist in Politics: Lyon Playfair and Scottish
Education
Amanda Phipps (Exeter):
Oh! What a Lovely YouTube Video: The Use of Technology in
History Teaching of the First World War
Ting-Hong Wong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan):
State Reformed Examinations of Chinese Middle
Schools in Singapore: late 1950s-early 1960s.
Joyce Goodman (Winchester):
Visualising Knowledge Circulation: Digital Technologies and
Time-Space in Histories of Education
Olga Campbell-Thomson (Glasgow):
‘Neo-Soviet’ Education or Refurbishment of a
Bourgeois Tradition? Natural Sciences in the
Compulsory School Curriculum in the Soviet Union
Paul Coleman & Laura Sellers (Leeds):
To Touch or Not to Touch: The Use of Object-Handling in the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine Education
Chair: Peter Cunningham
Cathy Burke (Cambridge):
Designing for Touch, Reach and Movement in PostWar (1946-72) English Primary and Infant School
Environments
Manfred Heinemann (Hannover):
The Hidden Side of the Re-education of Germany
after World War Two
Chair: Gary McCulloch
Chair: Rob Freathy
11.00-11.30
COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Cornerstone Foyer)
Grace Room
Scientific Training, Exploration and
Transnationalism
11.30 -1.30
Jane Wess (Edinburgh):
Unlocking the Mathematics in Mathematical
Instruments: Training at the Royal Geographical
Society in the Nineteenth Century
Lorna Stoddart (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh):
Botanical Education in Nineteenth-Century
Edinburgh
Ana Cristina Martins (Fundação para a Ciência e a
Tecnologia / Instituto de História Contemporânea da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa):
The Association of Portuguese Archaeologists and
SESSION 5
Cornerstone 110
Cornerstone 106
Science, Religion and Cosmopolitanism
Scientific Training in Military, Medical and Industrial Contexts
Stephen Tomlinson (Alabama):
The Great Didactic: Technology for the “Reformation
of Man”
Lena Moser (Tübingen):
“A study worthy of a Philosopher”: The Masters of the Royal
Navy and the Research and Instruction of Navigation
Raymond McCluskey (Glasgow):
Informal Scientific Education in Scottish Catholic
Communities in the Late Victorian Era
Nele Lehmann (Freiburg):
The Material Culture of Mining Education in Nineteenth-Century
Freiburg
Jonathan Doney (Exeter):
Its. Oh. So. Quiet: The Marginalization of Education
within Ecumenical Discourse during the MidTwentieth Century
Jana Sims (UCL Institute of Education):
Stimulators of Popular Science Education and Rational
Recreation: Mechanics Institute Museums in South-Eastern
England in the Nineteenth Century
Tomás Irish (Swansea):
Laura Newman (KCL):
Archaeology in Portugal during the 1970s: Between
Fieldwork and Public Display
A Man Called Mahaffy: An Irish Cosmopolitan in
Crisis, 1899-1919
Diana Vidal (Sao Paulo University):
Transnational Education: Brazil, France and Portugal
Connected by a School Museum
Chair: Stephen Parker
“Every tuberculosis subject who spits on the floor sows death
among his comrades”: Teaching Tuberculosis Prevention and
Cure in the British Post office, c. 1895-1930
Chair: Claire Jones
Chair: Robert Anderson
1.30-2.30
LUNCH (Great Hall)
POSTGRADUATE PANEL (Grace Room)
Greta Bell (California State University, Fresno):
“You certainly never learnt to curse Hoop-Petticoats out of the Practice of Piety.” Hoopskirts, Ideology, and Eighteenth-Century Fashion
Invectives
2.30-3.30
Tugba Karakuş (Fatih University, Istanbul):
Ottoman Armenians in the 19th century in Modern Ottoman Theatre
Jane Shepard (Brighton):
Discourses in Design Education: The Personal, Professional and Political Networks of the National Curriculum Design and Technology Working
Group
Annmarie Valdes (Loyola University, Chicago):
Autopsy of a Doctor; Dissecting a biographer: Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska and the Training of Female Doctors; Caroline Dall and the Writing of a Life
Chair: Lottie Hoare
3.30-4.00
COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Cornerstone Foyer)
4.00-5.00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2 (Great Hall):
Professor Jonathan Reinarz (Birmingham)
Learning From Your Mistakes: Writing the History of Five English Medical Schools
5.30-6.30
Chair: Cathy Burke
AGM OF THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY UK (Grace Room)
7.00-7.30
DRINKS RECEPTION (Cornerstone Foyer)
7.30
CONFERENCE DINNER (Great Hall)
SUN 22ND NOV
Grace Room
9.00-11.00
SESSION 6
Cornerstone 110
Cornerstone 106
Toys, Technology and Play
Women, Gender and Science in Spain
Words, Images and Education
Jo Elcoat (Leeds):
Boys and their Toys: Scientific Schooling in the
Eighteenth Century
Maria José Tacoronte Dominguez (Universidad de la
Laguna, Canary Islands):
The Impact of Modern Scientific Theories on the Debate
about Women’s Education in Early Twentieth-Century
Spain
Hilde Harmsen (Erasmus University, Rotterdam):
Building the Future: Technology and Innovation in Dutch
Children’s Literature, 1945-1960
Elodie Duché (York St Johns):
Monkey Energy: Natural Philosophy and Kinetic
Toys for Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
and France
Jane Insley (UCL Institute of Education)
Paper, Scissors, Rock – Aspects of the
Intertwined Histories of Pedagogy and ModelMaking, from Children’s Games to Professional
Skills
Chair: Tomás Irish
Yasmina Álvarez González (Universidad de la Laguna,
Canary Islands):
Women, Religion and Knowledge: The Thinking of the
First Spanish Female Professor about Women Scholars
Antonio F. Canales Serrano (Universidad de la Laguna,
Canary Islands):
Women and Science in Spain: Spanish Women in
Scientific Degrees in the First Half of the Twentieth
Century
Stephanie Spencer (Winchester) & Nancy Rosoff (Arcadia):
Covers and Illustrations in British and American School and
College Stories
Frances Kelly (University of Auckland):
‘Man sorting books’: Materiality and Higher Education in an
Archive of University Photographs
Chair: Marc van Overbeke
Amparo Gómez Rodríguez ((Universidad de la Laguna,
Canary Islands):
Education for the Scientific Development of the Country:
Science Education in the Spanish Social Contract for
Science
Chair: Joyce Goodman
11.00-11.30
COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Cornerstone Foyer)
11.30-12.30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 (Great Hall):
Dr Claire Jones (Liverpool)
‘All your dreadful scientific things’
Women, Science and Education in the Years around 1900
Chair: Ruth Watts
12.30
CONFERENCE CLOSE