Doing history: Using image analysis

1. Doing history: Using image analysis Mimi Lee Iowa State University

2. How do we engage students in “doing history”?

3. From Iowa Core Curriculum • History is the study and analysis of the past. Built upon a foundation of historical knowledge, history seeks to analyze the past in order to describe the relationship between historical facts, concepts, and generalizations. History draws upon cause and effect relationships within multiple social narratives to help explain complex human interactions. Understanding the past provides context for the present and implications for the future (Iowa Department of Education, 2008).

4. From Iowa Core Curriculum • History is the studyand analysis of the past. Built upon a foundation of historical knowledge, history seeks to analyze the past in order to describe the relationship between historical facts, concepts, and generalizations. History draws upon cause and effect relationships within multiple social narratives to help explain complex human interactions. Understanding the past provides context for the present and implications for the future (Iowa Department of Education, 2008).

5. Research and reforms in history education • Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies, 1893 • Committee of Seven, 1899 • The Bradley Commission, 1988 • The National Standards, 1994 • Levstik & Barton, 2001

9. Historical empathy • Historians contextualize by situating events and sources in time and place and they also use historical empathy to relive the thoughts, emotions, and actions of people in the past—that is, to try to understand the past on its own terms (Collingwood, 1948; Davis Jr., 2001; Yeager & Doppen, 2001).

10. PEOPLE/SPACE/TIMEPEOPLE/OBJECT/ACTIVITY

12. Was this person living east or west of the Appalachian Mountains? • Speculate three present-day cities where this person may have lived. • Was this portrait painted before or after the Civil War? • Speculate a century and a decade when the portrait was made.

13. Write down five adjectives to describe this person and/or this person’s way of living. • Speculate as to the motives of the creator of this portrait. • What title would you give this portrait? (Drake & Nelson, 2005)

15. List three adjectives that describe the individuals/objects/activity in this photograph. • What does this photograph tell you about these people’s lives? • When do you think this photograph was taken? • Why do you think this photograph was taken? • What title would you give this photograph? (Drake & Nelson, 2005)

16. See the photo analysis worksheet developed by National Archives and Records Administration.

17. Similarities and differences

20. Dave Martin/Associated Press “A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store”. Chris Graythen/Agence France-Presse “Two residents wade through chestdeep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store”.

21. INTERACTIVE SLIDE STRATEGY VISUAL DISCOVERY

22. Using visuals during a “lecture” can capture student interest and allow them to interact with the content. • It is important to create a “question script” of carefully sequenced questions to use with the visuals.

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25. Hemispheric(quadrant) Analysis

28. Where was this photograph taken? • When was this photograph taken? • What does this photograph tell us about people’s lives? • What were the motivations of the photographer? • How does this photograph relate to what we have been discussing in class? (Drake & Nelson, 2005)

30. Sourcing and corroboration

31. Sourcing • Sourcing is the action looking for the document's attribution, constructing hypotheses about the author's probity and rhetorical intent before proceeding to the body of the document (Wineburg, 1991).

32. Who took this photograph? • When was it taken? • What are the motives of the photographer? • In what context was this used?

33. Corroboration • Corroboration is comparing one document with another before taking it as trustworthy or probable (Wineburg, 1991).

34. How does this compare to other documents/photographs? • Does this support, contrast, and/or expand what I already know about ____?

35. References • Collingwood, R. G. (1948). The idea of history. Oxford: Clarendon Press. • Davis Jr., O. L. (2001). In pursuit of historical empathy. In O. L. Davis Jr, E. A. Yeager & S. J. Foster (Eds.), Historical empathy and perspective taking in the social studies (pp. 1-12). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. • Drake, F., & Nelson, L. (2005). Engagement in teaching history: Theory and practices for middle and secondary teachers. Columbus, OH: Pearson. • Iowa Department of Education (2008), Iowa Core Curriculum. • Wineburg, S. S. (1991). Historical problem solving: A study of the cognitive processes used in the evaluation of documentary and pictorial evidence. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(1), 73-87. • Yeager, E. A., & Foster, S. J. (2001). The roles of empathy in the development of historical understanding. In O. L. Davis Jr, E. A. Yeager & S. J. Foster (Eds.), Historical empathy and perspective taking in the social studies (pp. 13-20). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC.