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The presentation of the photo album <strong>in</strong> this article should serve as an<br />
example, encourag<strong>in</strong>g teachers to look for correspond<strong>in</strong>g sources <strong>in</strong> their own<br />
countries. A further important reason for present<strong>in</strong>g the photo album is that<br />
common questions and pr<strong>in</strong>ciples dom<strong>in</strong>ated the development of social work<br />
and social work education <strong>in</strong> the various countries. The photo album, presented<br />
and commented upon below, can be used <strong>in</strong> class work, not only to<br />
illustrate historical narratives and developments, but also to open them up to<br />
questions and to create a connection to the observer and her history, to her<br />
own experience and her own – often semi-conscious – <strong>in</strong>ner pictures. For this<br />
purpose, some “key pictures” can be viewed together <strong>in</strong> class. These images can<br />
be <strong>in</strong>terpreted and analysed, as demonstrated <strong>in</strong> an example at the end of this<br />
article. But we can also analyse the album as a whole, look<strong>in</strong>g at its structure<br />
and layout, the choice and order of its themes and pictures, and the relationships<br />
between the <strong>in</strong>dividual parts. Depend<strong>in</strong>g on students’ field of study and<br />
where they are <strong>in</strong> the course, all this can be presented by the lecturer as an<br />
<strong>in</strong>troduction or worked through <strong>in</strong> the form of case studies by the students<br />
themselves. Case studies lend themselves to use with the album as a whole,<br />
with one of the two parts, or with <strong>in</strong>dividual pages or <strong>in</strong>dividual topics. It seems<br />
important to me that <strong>in</strong> this process, sufficient space is given for spontaneous<br />
impressions and associations. In this way there can be a discussion of personal<br />
responses and of aspect that may unsettle or even disgust the observer.<br />
I shall beg<strong>in</strong> by present<strong>in</strong>g the album as a whole, page by page, with<br />
only a few comments offer<strong>in</strong>g a basic impression. The first image shows the<br />
cover of the album with its discreetly coloured paper. 3<br />
On the open<strong>in</strong>g page you f<strong>in</strong>d a dedication to Alice Salomon on the<br />
occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of social work tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Germany. This<br />
refers to the one-year tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses of the Mädchen- und Frauengruppen für<br />
soziale Hilfsarbeit (Girls’ and Women’s Groups for <strong>Social</strong> Service <strong>Work</strong>), which<br />
began <strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> 1899. The album was made by Siddy Wronsky – another<br />
pioneer of social work <strong>in</strong> Germany – together with colleagues and friends of<br />
Alice Salomon (figure 2). (All figures: see below on the pages between the first<br />
and the second part of this article.)<br />
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All photographs reproduced <strong>in</strong> this article are held by Alice Salomon Archiv, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berl<strong>in</strong>.<br />
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