A Picture and a Thousand Words
There will be two sessions in the conference program titled "A Picture and a Thousand Words".
These sessions provide an opportunity to present material evidence concerning the history of work in education, and also to theorise visual images as historical evidence.
Historians and all scholars with interests relevant to the conference theme are invited to propose papers of a thousand words relating to a particular image. See Call for Papers.
The image should be projectable (overhead, power point etc.).
Presenters in this session should read their paper to the session. This takes between 7-8 minutes. Papers may be more or less theorised, but need to be related to the conference theme. There will be time for a couple of questions after each presentation.
Presenters of papers in the main program are very welcome to submit a proposal for these sessions also.
Depending on the success of the sessions and the willingness of presenters to participate, a web site will be developed in early 2009 to publish the papers and images. This will be dependent on the necessary permissions being gained to publish the images on the web.