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Spencer-Bennett, Kate; Grosvenor, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
In 1966 the photographer Martine Franck was commissioned by "Life International" to document the experiences of children in a new library in Paris. The visual essay she produced illuminated the materiality, the design and the children's use of the space. In Birmingham, a recent unconnected research project, 'Libraries in Women's Lives',…
Descriptors: Library Development, Interior Space, School Libraries, Aesthetics
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Grosvenor, Ian; Myers, Kevin – History of Education, 2020
In the nineteenth century city child rescuers developed 'a taxonomy of space' in which geography determined destiny. The privatised spaces of the middle classes were contrasted with the 'dirt, disease and delinquency' of the slums. Yet at the same time as 'dirt' was viewed as 'destructive' and proof of urban neglect it was also accepted in the…
Descriptors: Children, Play, Natural Resources, Photography