Research
Research Profile
In my bachelor's and master's studies in education and currently as a doctoral student, I have focused my work on issues of school and instruction systems with a particular focus on elementary education, especially in Prussia and Germany. My work as a research assistant in the German Research Foundation-funded project "The Bureaucratization of Grouping. Local and Transnational Innovation Dynamics in the Introduction of the Year Class in Compulsory Education (Prussia, USA, Spain; c. 1830-1930)" offered me the opportunity to work with a variety of source sites, analytical methods, and archival locations. My research focused on the connection between research question, methodological approach, and (digital) archival materials, which I focused on in several courses - alone or in teams. While I mainly dealt with journals in my master's thesis, I am currently using teacher's manuals, collections of ordinances, staff sheets, and other "small forms" in my ongoing dissertation. Theoretically, I coin the term "school technologies" in the dissertation, which I combine with praxeological and actantial considerations in order to grasp the level between school administration and school reality theoretically and historiographically. In addition, I am interested in the disciplinarity of school administration and processes of knowledge production by experts, researchers, and practitioners. My second research interests adresses past and present of sexual education in Germany, Prussia and the GDR.
Thematic focus
- Prussian and German School History of the 19th and 20th Century
- Technology deficit and school technologies
- Media of sexual education and upbringing in Prussia, FRG and GDR
- Small forms of the pedagogical
- Knowledge history of school administration
- subjectification and de-subjectification of school knowledge
- posthumanist theory
Current Projects
- Collaboration within the DFG research project The Disciplinarity of the Specialized Administration. Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Production and Knowledge Practices of the mid-level Prussian Primary School Administration, 1817-1919
- Dissertation Project: The Institutionalization of the "Age-Graded Classes" in the Prussian Compulsory School System (1807-1933)
Completed projects
Mitarbeit
- Collaboration as research assistant within the DFG research project The Bureaucratization of Groupings. Local and transnational dynamic of innovation in the introduction of age-graded school classes in compulsory education (Prussia, the US, and Spain, ca. 1830-1930) (together with Fanny Isensee, Till Eble und Anna Lindner under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso)
- Collaboration as (student) research assistant within the DFG research project Entstehung und Steuerung ‚gemischter‘ unterrichtsorganisatorischer Normen im Transfervergleich (Spanien, Irland, Indien, ca. 1840-1900) (together with Judith Kutter und Maria Moritz under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso)