Beyond the Classroom : Studies on Pupils and Informal Schooling Processes in Modern Europe

Larsson, Anna (EDT); Norlin, Björn (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3631653603 / ISBN 13: 9783631653609

Published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Classroom : Studies on Pupils and Informal Schooling Processes in Modern Europe
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631653603
• ISBN 13: 9783631653609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics that are rarely discussed in the field. These topics include practices related to day-to-day school life that are not part of the formal curriculum or classroom routine, but which nevertheless allow pupils to become actively involved in their own schooling. This book provides historical case studies on such extracurricular and informal schooling processes. It argues that the awareness of such topics is essential to our understanding of school settings – in both past and present.

About the Author

Anna Larsson is Associate Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University (Sweden).
Björn Norlin is a researcher in History at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University (Sweden).
Both are members of the Umeå Research Group for Studies in History and Education.