Abstract

THIES, Vania Grim. A suitcase, an archive: ordinary writing in notebooks used outside school settings. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.20, e047.  Epub Jan 29, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v20-2021-47.

Except in rare cases, women are responsible for keeping family memories. Personal archives and their objects in different media reveal how social and sensible are everyday traces. In that context, this paper seeks to analyze the personal archives of an unschooled woman to understand how written records support those memories. The subject of this research is an ordinary woman who recorded accounts, lists of names and surnames, regional, national, and world events, and others. We analyzed six notebooks used outside school settings that correspond to different periods between 1946 and 2012. They reveal traces of rural, everyday life through ordinary writing. Theory and methodology for this paper are based on Cultural History premises. It contributes to History of Education and to Contemporary History by analyzing ephemeral records.

Keywords : Personal archives; Ordinary writing; History of Education.

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