History of Schooling:
Politics and local practice
8-10 June 2011
Uppsala University
Welcome to the website of the conference titled “History
of Schooling: Politics and local practice”. The conference will be held in 2011,
June 8-10, at Uppsala University, Sweden. It is organized by Carla Aubry
(University of Zurich) and Johannes Westberg (Uppsala University).
In historical research, studies of education policy and local practice are often investigated in relative isolation
from one another. There is a divide between researchers with focus on local
studies and those which concentrate on the ‘bigger picture’. Projects tend to
deal either with public policy and discourse, or with local practices and
cultures.
To integrate illuminating details and wider contextual relations inevitably
means that theoretical clarity will sometimes be partially obscured by empirical
messiness, while what appear to be significant details in particular
institutional and national contexts may get lost in the attempt to make broader
generalizations.
The conference will focus on these different levels of historical research. In
order to get fresh input (regarding theoretical standpoints, source materials,
research literature etc.) the participants will present and discuss their phd-
and postdoc projects on subjects such as language education, educational
administration, student magazines and elementary school funding.
More information about participants and the phd- and postdoctoral projects that
will be presented, are available through links on the left.
We are looking forward to meeting you in June,
Carla Aubry
Johannes Westberg
Organizers
The
National Graduate School in the History of Education, Uppsala
The
research unit Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC), Uppsala
Department of History, Uppsala
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft (IFE), Zürich
Sponsors
