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Gestures around the Visual

Gestures around the Visual In his 1902 essay on “Geography in the University”, A J Herbertson, having discussed the university’s value in modern life and the role of geographical teaching within it, turned to “The Equipment of the Geographical Department”. A good institution would provide a laboratory with maps, models and globes, a library with textbooks, monographs and periodicals, and lecture facilities: “In the lectureroom, in addition to black-boards and diagram-screens, there must be a lantern, and if possible a double-headed lantern which would throw two pictures on different screens at the same time, and thus permit a comparison between two maps or between a map and a view” (Herbertson 1902:131). All this went towards a discipline with a visually modelled imagination: “All agree that few subjects are capable of being used as effectively in training the powers of observation, description, comparison, and classification, and of developing the imagination and widening the sympathies of the pupils” (Herbertson 1902:125). Somebody may, one day, trace the detailed history of the provision of teaching equipment in geography departments as a way into the culture and institutional politics of geographical learning. Personal experience suggests that Herbertson’s proposal did not become the rule in the UK, but http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Antipode Wiley

Gestures around the Visual

Matless, David
Antipode , Volume 35 (2) – Mar 1, 2003
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0066-4812
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In his 1902 essay on “Geography in the University”, A J Herbertson, having discussed the university’s value in modern life and the role of geographical teaching within it, turned to “The Equipment of the Geographical Department”. A good institution would provide a laboratory with maps, models and globes, a library with textbooks, monographs and periodicals, and lecture facilities: “In the lectureroom, in addition to black-boards and diagram-screens, there must be a lantern, and if possible a double-headed lantern which would throw two pictures on different screens at the same time, and thus permit a comparison between two maps or between a map and a view” (Herbertson 1902:131). All this went towards a discipline with a visually modelled imagination: “All agree that few subjects are capable of being used as effectively in training the powers of observation, description, comparison, and classification, and of developing the imagination and widening the sympathies of the pupils” (Herbertson 1902:125). Somebody may, one day, trace the detailed history of the provision of teaching equipment in geography departments as a way into the culture and institutional politics of geographical learning. Personal experience suggests that Herbertson’s proposal did not become the rule in the UK, but

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Published: Mar 1, 2003

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