Iconography in History of Childhood: Possibilities of Research Methods and Topics

Abstract

The topic of this paper are the possibilities in the Iconographic research made in the field of History of Education, particulary in History of Childhood. The paper presents an overview of the researches published in Hungary since 2008 and provides an example of a research method for the visual analysis itself. The aim of the essay is to explain, how do we read images, and suggest research perspectives of the visual research method; which is focusing on the possible research outcomes working with images and texts at the same time.