Possibilities of Picture Analysis in Conductive Pedagogy

Abstract

In the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s András Pető knew and transmitted about persons with motor disabilities different knowledge and perspectives than contemporaries would. He continuously and systematically documented the Institute’s day-to-day activities. Therefore, innumerable photos and films keep alive the memory of the first stage of conductive education. Although the examination of our visual heritage has only just started, we can already see that visual stories make a great contribution to our thinking about the essence of conductive education. Studying the pictures of conductive education, it is clear that the method of pictorial analysis is a good way of analysing them. With the help of symbols decoded, one single photo is able to reflect the complete philosophical system, if we have the adequate background knowledge of the age and its socio-cultural features and also about the facts of the given research theme.