Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Science - History of Education

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

 

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