ABSTRACT
This special i sue explores how meaning is created, conveyed and transformed through multiple modes of communication, representation and interaction (the textual, the visual, the material, the spatial, the aural, the imaginary, etc.); through movement acro s spaces; through media and technologies; and, finally, through collective memory-and iden ity-making. In short, this i sue is concerned with meaning mob lised through “multimodality”, “translocation”, “technology” and “heritage”. As such, it closely co nects to several core dimensions of education which in the past few decades have undergone a revival of interest in histories of education: visuality, materiality, spatiality, transfer and circulation. Related to these key education dimensions are i sues to do with the diffusion of knowledge, values, practices and ways of s eing, perceiving and f eling acro s and beyond borders. Such i sues were at the heart of a symposium organised at the 34th International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE), which t ok place in Geneva in June 2012 in c operation with the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) and the Disab lity History A sociation (DHA) and a dre sed the theme of “internationalization in education”.1
