Interweaving Peripheries

What do urban streets, rubbish bins, deserts, and private industry have to do with schooling?

In the new edited volume Interweaving Peripheries, contributors explore the often-overlooked spaces, objects, and actors that shape school life from the margins. Rather than treating these educational peripheries as mere background, the volume demonstrates how deeply they are entangled in the everyday making of schools and schooling. Drawing on diverse historical and educational contexts, the chapters present schools as dynamic meshworks of interconnected ideas, materials, practices, and people. They examine how educational peripheries emerge, shift, stabilise, and challenge existing structures, showing that what occurs at the edges is often central to how schools are formed, experienced, and transformed.

This book launch seminar will feature an introduction to the volume by the editors, presentations by contributing authors, and readings of selected passages. By bringing the margins of school and schooling into focus in this way, the seminar will explore how Interweaving Peripheries sheds new light on processes of educational change and invites readers to reconsider where, how, and by whom schooling is made.

The event is:

• Open to the general public, all staff and all students.
• This online seminar is not being recorded.

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Speaker biographies

Fanny Isensee is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University (Finland). Her research focuses on the history of everyday nationalism, particularly with regard to school meals, school routes and 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 interests encompass the entangled becoming of everyday school life, pedagogical ideas and policy-making in its broadest sense in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Josefine Wähler is Research Assistant at the BBF | Research Library for the History of Education, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, in Berlin (Germany), and PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). Her research interests focus on (further) teacher training, teachers’ narratives and schooling in East Germany, as well as on school feeding and digital publishing in the history of education.