1st Edition
The History of Education as History of Knowledge Exploring Methods and Sources
Introduction
Joel Barnes, Jona T. Garz, Fanny Isensee, Joakim Landahl, Björn Lundberg, and Daniel Töpper
Part 1: Sources for a History of Knowledge
Chapter 1
Educational knowledge in an early-nineteenth century boarding school: The case of Pestalozzi’s Institute in Yverdon
Rebekka Horlacher
Chapter 2
It’s an adult’s world! Children and their drawings as instruments in the process of scientific knowledge production
Michèle Hofmann
Chapter 3
“No greater merit than that of collecting”? Retracing Johann Friedrich Wilberg’s textbook curation to inform computational text reuse detection
Fabian Dombrowski and Maret Nieländer
Part 2: Methods for Knowledge in Motion
Chapter 4
The teaching-research nexus in literary and philosophical societies in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain: The case of Manchester
Heather Ellis
Chapter 5
The Dutch niche: Teaching a marginalised and devalued language in Prussia, 1825–1852
Hendrik Holzmüller
Chapter 6
“Experts” and “learners”? Programa Diem/Projekt Argentinien as a case for tracing the methodological potential of knowledge circulation within postcolonial and unequal power contexts
Lilli Riettiens, Eduardo Galak, and Daniela Mansi
Part 3: Rethinking Knowledge (in) Institutions
Chapter 7
Literacy in the “Driest of Sciences”: Statistical systems outside the state and their influence on school politics in Prussia (ca. 1859-1920)
Daniel Töpper
Chapter 8
Building knowledge about building schools: Research, experiments, dissemination and practice in Sweden 1950–1970
Johan Samuelsson and Fredrik Krohn Andersson
Chapter 9
Psychological school maturity testing in state-socialist Czechoslovakia: Expert knowledge as a shaping force in the history of education
Theofil Finsterschott
Chapter 10
Countercultural notions of the mother and the child? Shared and contested knowledges in experimental and non-experimental contexts of kindergartens in Zurich around 1970
Andrea De Vincenti
Biography
Joel Barnes is honorary research fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, and research fellow in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works on histories of evolutionary science, education and universities.
Jona T. Garz is a senior research and teaching assistant at the University of Zurich. His work explores the history of knowledge in education, psychology, and medicine. He is currently writing a history of self-directed learning in the 20th century.
Fanny Isensee is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include the history of school organization, school routes and school transportation, small forms in education as well as the connections between history of knowledge and history of education.
Joakim Landahl is professor of education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Specialized in the history of education, his current research includes the history of international assessments, the relationships between parents and schools, and the school student movement.
Björn Lundberg is associate professor of history at Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on the history of childhood and youth, and the history of knowledge. He coordinates the focus area Knowledge and Education at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).
Daniel Töpper is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the history of school administration, school supervision, and the grammar of schooling. He is currently investigating the emergence of sex education as cross-curricular theme in the 20th-century.
