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World's Fair (world + fair)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

Challenging the Gaze: The Subject of Attention and a 1915 Montessori Demonstration Classroom

EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2004
Noah W. Sobe
The child's attention, how this attention is reasoned about, and how attention works as a surface for pedagogical intervention are central to understanding modern schooling. This article examines "attention" as an object of knowledge related to the organization and management of individuals. I address what we might learn about attention by studying one specific Montessori classroom, the glass-walled public demonstration set up at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair. The pedagogy of attention on display and the spectatorship of the classroom provide an opportunity to rethink how power and subjectivity play in the formation of human attractions. I argue that thinking through Montessori offers important and relevant suggestions for present-day examinations of attention. The 1915 demonstration classroom can help us theorize the relation of attention to normalizing and governmentalizing practices. This specific study of how attention operates in one locale has implications for tactile learning theories and for the analytics of power to be used in studies of attention. [source]

White Queens at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893: New Womanhood in the Service of Class, Race, and Nation

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2000
T. J. Boisseau
First page of article [source]

Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933,34 World's Fair by Lisa D. Shrenk

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 2 2008
David M. Sokol
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Remembering Exhibitions on Race in the 20th-century United States

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009
SAMUEL REDMAN
ABSTRACT This museum review places the American Anthropological Association's recent exhibition entitled "Race: Are We So Different?" into historical context by comparing it to other major exhibitions on race in the 20th century. I argue that although exhibitions on race in the 19th-century United States are frequently examined in the historical and anthropological literature, later exhibitions from the 20th century are frequently forgotten. In particular, I compare the AAA's recent exhibition to displays originally crafted for the 1915 and 1933 World's Fairs. [source]