5104 x 3088 px | 43,2 x 26,1 cm | 17 x 10,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
26 aprile 2018
Altre informazioni:
. Recorded at the recorded location in 2018, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The defining feature is Lancaster railway station, home of Lancaster university, platform. The image also relates to revision resource, study material, exam preparation, visual archive, before-and-after reference, place identity, historical comparison, regional identity, changing streetscape, exam practice, everyday life, advanced mathematics, assessment material, and school examination. The modern context includes continuing discussion of digital learning, education standards and the pressure placed on students by high-stakes assessment. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around the recorded location before altered transport patterns alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes qualification assessment, public realm, period detail, secondary education, student revision, contemporary social history, education publishing, and changing land use. The combination of platform, station, Lancaster, railway, and university anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Image MHM66Y still provides a clear period benchmark for Lancaster railway station, home of Lancaster university, platform, preserving details of design, wording, material, use or presentation that may later change. The scene further reflects digital learning and the pressure placed on students by high-stakes assessment as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Its period value extends to student attainment and the continuing importance of mathematics skills in science, technology and engineering when considered against later change at the recorded location. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history as a date-specific reference. The record includes details of everyday use for later comparison.
