Urzeczywistnienie. Historia wychowania w kontekście „powrotu do rzeczy”
Reification. The History of Education in the Context of “Return to Things”

Summary/Abstract: The present considerations focus on engaging the contexts of so-called “return to things” in rethinking strategies of historical research within pedagogy. The starting point of this paper is an attempt to build a list of obstacles that seem to block endeavours to combine history of education and object-oriented tendencies in the humanities. Nevertheless, deeper analysis proves that the nature of these obstacles is rather superficial. Furthermore, some of them were already overcome in the past (e.g. an approach similar to the “material turn” can already be found in 16th century educational writings by Erasmus of Rotterdam). By exploring tendencies within “return to things”, history of education does not only keep the pace with contemporary trends in the humanities but it also develops particular sensitivity to the applied styles of historical conciseness by opening to unpresent styles of historiography.

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