Archive Nel Ojemann

Brief overview

Name of the archive: Archive Nel (P.C.) Ojemann

Provenance: Ojemann, Nel (1914-2003)

Dated: 1955-2003         

Size: 4,8m

Language of the materials: Dutch

Summary:

Scientific archive of Nel Ojemann (1914-2003), educational theorist

Collection number: UBG072

Institute: University Library Groningen

Retainer: University Library Groningen

Provenance and acquisition

Biography

As a child, Nel Ojemann struggled with learning how to read, until her mother started associating words with pictures and other objects for her. The word ‘krom’ (crooked) was accompanied by the image of her aunt Jans, whose last name was also ‘Krom’. These associations helped Ojemann discover that letters had meaning.

Nel Ojemann attended the hbs-b, where she excelled in the sciences, but struggled with languages. She wanted to study medicine, but ended up studying nursing in Amsterdam, after getting a teaching degree. While she was mother to three children and worked teaching younger children at the Montessorischool in Bussum, she went back to school for a mo-A Pedagogiek, which would allow her to teach at the high school level.

She moved to Amsterdam and works at the Pedologisch Instituut, while also attending the University of Amsterdam to study educational theory. At this time, she was also working to train remedial teachers, at the first institute of its kind in Amsterdam. In 1966, she gets her degree in educational theory and psychology and starts working for Professor van Gelder, an educational theorist, at the Univeristy of Groningen.

Until her retirement in 1979, she taught at the UG. In 1990, she founded the Ojemann bureau, to do diagnostic research into learning problems and visual thinking.

Acquisition

Unknown

Future additions

No future additions are expected   

Contents and collation

This archive contains correspondence, manuscript and print material, documents from Bureau Ojemann and published work by Ojemann.

Instructions for users of the archive

Accessibility

The archive is accessible for research purposes. To look at the archive, a University Library Access Pass is required.

Limitations to use

The materials in this archive are available for viewing only. They cannot be borrowed. When consulting these materials, the rules set out in the Reglement voor de gebruikers van de Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen apply. Reproductions, insofar as they are allowed, are to be made in line with the rules set out in the Tarieven en diensten Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

As owners of the collection, the University Library holds the rights to publish (parts of) the archive.

Accessing the collection

An inventory of the archive is available.

Citations

When referencing (materials from) this archive, the following information must be provided in full at least once. After this, an abbreviated citation suffices.

• Archive: University Library Groningen, Archive Nel Ojemann

• Individual items: Groningen, UB, Ojemann [number]

Requests

Materials from this archive can be requested by sending an email to Special Collections department as well as through Smartcat, the online library catalogue.