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DESCRIPTION:Ann-Sophie\nLehmann will present at the Museum Conversations\nS
 eminar on Tuesday\, April 28\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “The Museum\n
 as a ‘School of\nThings’:\nObjects and Their Pedagogical\nPromise\nsince C
 omenius.”As part of\nthe didactic turn in early modern Europe\, real world
  objects were foregrounded\nas ideal teaching materials. Johan Amos Comeni
 us—famous for having his Latin primers\nillustrated with pictures—argued t
 hat a school should have a collection with\nthose objects that pupils were
  not able to observe in everyday life. These were\nto be used in teaching\
 , because words and images were merely substitutes for the\nreal things in
  the world and only a complete sensory perception of the latter could\nimp
 ress real knowledge onto pupils’ minds. Following this philosophy\, some\n
 German schools installed educational cabinets that exhibited objects and m
 odels\nin order to convey Realwissen. Over\nthe next centuries\, the ambit
 ion to teach through a direct engagement with the\nenvironment became a ha
 llmark of educational reform movements from Pestalozzi\nall the way to Joh
 n Dewey\, who\, like Comenius\, imagined a museum at the center\nof his mo
 del school. Recently\, the pedagogical promise of objects has made a\ncome
 back in educational theory\, informing object-based teaching and learning\
 ; often\nin close collaboration with museum collections. This talk traces
 \nthe lineage outlined here\, wonders about the regular return of things i
 n\neducation\, questions the pedagogical imaginary of access to the “real”
 \, and asks\nif and under which circumstances the pedagogical promises of 
 things might be\nfulfilled.Ann-Sophie\nLehmann is chair of art history & m
 aterial culture at the University of\nGroningen. She recently published Le
 ssons\nin Art. Art\, Education\, and Modes of Instruction\, ed. with E. Jo
 rink &\nB. Ramakers\, Leiden 2019. For an overview of her publications and
  activities\,\nsee https://www.rug.nl/staff/a.s.lehmann/.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: CANCELED—The Museum as a 'School of Things'
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