Interweaving Peripheries: Transient Objectives and Morphing Spaces of School and Schooling

Urban streets, rubbish bins, the desert and private industry are all examples of what might be termed ‘pedagogical peripheries,’ which, over time, tie into and contribute to the making of school and schooling. As peripheries they might easily be overlooked and their role neglected. However, rather than treating these pedagogical peripheries, which can be both fleeting and highly concrete, as mere background, this book conceptualises them as part of a school that is seen as a dynamic meshwork of interconnected actors, ideas, materials and practices. The chapters reveal how the peripheries of school and schooling are constantly shifting, sometimes stabilising and sometimes challenging existing structures. By focusing on what happens on the sidelines, the book shows how seemingly marginal aspects are intrinsically interwoven with daily routines and educational processes. The result is a more complex understanding of how schools are formed, experienced, and changed.

Fanny Isensee is Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). Her research focuses on the history of school organisation, school routes and school transportation, small forms in education as well as the connections between history of knowledge and history of education.

Lisa Rosén Rasmussen is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University (Denmark). Her research focuses on the entangled histories of everyday school life, pedagogical ideas, and policy-making in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Josefine Wähler is Research Assistant at the BBF | Research Library for the History of Education and PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). Her research interests focus on history of teacher training, teachers’ narratives and schooling in the GDR, history of music education, and digital publication forms in history of education.