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This webinar will bring together historians of education working with sensory history approaches and history educators who employ sensory pedagogies in their teaching practice. It will explore the possibilities which a focus on sensory experiences provides for accessing the lived experience of education on the part of students, parents, teachers and wider communities. Speakers will address the complex and overlapping ways in which perceptions of sight, sound, smell and taste shape educational experiences both today and in the past. We will also consider the role of objects, materiality and the sense of touch, more broadly, in structuring learning experiences at different levels of education, both within the classroom space and beyond.
We will also examine the importance of sensory experiences in the collection of historical data, particularly in the context of oral histories. Speakers will be asked to reflect on the role of the senses in the construction of memory, both individual and collective, and the particular challenges which sensory histories and pedagogies pose for the researcher and teacher. Speakers’ presentations will be short (10 mins in length) and focused on a particular case study, either of a research project involving sensory history techniques or a pedagogical practice drawing on sensory experiences. It is hoped that these short presentations will provide a platform for a successful plenary discussion which will draw together strands which unite both historians and history educators.
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