Publication Date:
2024-03-23
Description:
In 1906, a new primer was published in the German city of Bremen: The Bremer
Fibel. Its illustrations were created by Cornelis Jetses (1873-1955) one of the bestknown
illustrators of teaching material in the Netherlands, his home country, in
the first half of the twentieth century. This article focuses on these illustrations
and shows how Jetses used his artistic skills to create images which fulfilled the
demands of representatives of Reformed Pedagogy, a movement which emerged
in Europe around 1900 and placed the child at the centre of education. By creating
an overall design for the book that should help children develop a good aesthetic
taste and by showing people, objects and situations that were part of the pupils’
everyday world, Cornelis Jetses played a part in establishing a child-oriented
education in Bremen. Furthermore, this article also shows how the illustrator
used artistic composition principles to create images that helped pupils to learn
how to read words and decipher images.
Keywords:
Textbooks, Early reading education, Cornelis Jetses, Illustrations, Jugendstil, History of education
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands
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thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLC Library, archive and information management
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
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thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACD Dutch
Language:
English
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Dutch
Format:
image/jpeg
