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The Role of Family Snapshots in Teaching Art History within a Dialogic Pedagogy
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How can educators use dialogic teaching strategies to build connections between artworks and life experiences of students in a survey art history course? Can stories represented in one's family snapshots facilitate dialogue about formal content and conceptual issues present in works of art in museums? My interest in understanding if discussions of snapshots could facilitate students' insights into works of art was prompted, in part, by the work of historian Julia Hirsch (1981). She investigates meanings of family photographs by comparing twentieth-century snapshots of mothers and children, weddings, and homes to works from art history, such as a fourth century B.C. Roman marble stele …
