Educational Iconography: A Field of Research

"Educational iconography" refers to the study and interpretation of figurative repertoires in different media relating to school and other forms of education. These are repertoires of images aiming to communicate information and cultural content, or aiming to facilitate the learning of certain knowledge, make a historical topic and scientific concepts interesting, or – more simply – show and recognise something in order to name and describe it. Last but not least, they represent the theme of a board game. Some historical points of reference define the profile of this topic...