Timeline: A history of school through everyday school objects
Inauguration: Monday, April 28 at 12pm, Building A, staircase RDC - 1st floor
What do a Duralex glass, a pencil case, an inkwell, a report card or a textbook have in common? All these objects are intimately linked to the history of school.
This year, as part of UE202 in L1 and L2 History of Education, the aim was to link these multiple objects of everyday school life to the long history of the school, its laws and reforms, from the XIXᵉ to the XXIᵉ century.
A giant chronological frieze has been created, made up of school objects and spaces.
Some reflect the continuity of the educational institution, while others mark breaks, accelerations or even backward steps from a pedagogical point of view.
The students have built their thinking around these objects, but also around key notions such as writing, reading, counting, but also moving, building, exhibiting, playing, encouraging or punishing. QR codes will enable visitors to find out more details from the students' written work on the various objects.
All this work will take the form of a giant chronological frieze, displayed in the staircase of Building A, between the ground and second floors.
Taught by Sylvain Wagnon, teacher-researcher in the history of education, head of Cedrhe.