1. CfP: EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF DISABLED PUPILS IN THE WELFARE STATE
2. STIG G. NORDSTRÖM (1930-2023)
3. VÄGVAL i SKOLAN, NR 1 / 2023
4. PUBLIKATIONER
1. CfP: EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF DISABLED PUPILS IN THE WELFARE STATE
Special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, to be published in 2025.
Idiots, feebleminded, pupils with special educational needs, disabled – the categories of children viewed as different has changed dramatically during the past century. In the welfare state era, from the interwar period and onwards, the management of children with cognitive and physical disabilities underwent radical transformations. In the Nordics, as well as many other western countries, children with physical and cognitive disabilities had no rights to education in the early decades. Children were tested and assessed and placed in special schools or special classes (e.g. van Drenth and Myers 2011; van Drenth 2016; Ydesen 2012; Hamre et al. 2019; Axelsson 2020). From the 1960s and 1970s, the official policies concerning disabled children and youth moved towards integration and inclusion. Equal access to education became the overall goal. Every child, regardless of disability, was going to become a useful and productive citizen (Pijl, Meijer, and Hegarty 1997; Link 2022). How can these changes be understood in light of the transformations of the social democratic welfare state model?
The historiography of special education, the study of learning disabilities and children with special educational needs is an expanding area internationally (e.g. Bakker 2015; Hornby and Kauffman 2021). Our intention is to initiate a scientific dialogue that can strengthen knowledge about special education in the Nordics and especially in relation to the changing welfare state regimes and the influence of neoliberal programs of governance. For this special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, we therefore invite papers that focus on the radical changes or continuities in political policies, in special educational practices, knowledge production and teaching in the period 1920–2020. We also welcome papers that examine the theoretical possibilities of including the analytical category of disability in the history of education.
While Northern Europe is the geographical focus of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, contributions for this special issue may deal with any geographical area and types of welfare state regime. Contributions may address one or more of the following themes:
• transformations in special education in the context of changing welfare state regimes, • changes and continuities in teaching and policy,
• the role of educational and psychological experts and theories,
• histories of assessment and testing,
• new theoretical perspectives in the history of special education.
Deadline for 250-word abstracts: 31 December 2023.
Deadline for 1–2-page outline: April 2024
Manuscripts due September 2024; planned publication: 2025.
This special issue will be edited by Anne Berg, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Gothenburg, together with Emma Laurin and Johanna Ringarp, Department of Education, Uppsala University. Please e-mail abstracts and questions to: anne.berg@history.gu.se
2. STIG G. NORDSTRÖM (1930-2023)
Stig G. Nordström (1930-2023) – en av svensk utbildningshistorias förgrundsfigurer – har avlidit. Stig disputerade 1968 på avhandlingen ”Hjälpskolan och särskolan i Sverige t.o.m. 1921 – utvecklingen i relation till differentieringsproblemet” – en avhandling som fortfarande utgör ett viktigt bidrag till specialpedagogikens historia. Sitt viktigaste bidrag gjorde han som redaktör för Årsböcker i svensk undervisningshistoria 1972-2020. Han redigerade sammanlagt hela 68 volymer i årsboksserien. Inte minst under 1980- och 1990-talet, när det svenska utbildningshistoriska forskningsfältet var mycket mindre än vad det är idag, var årsböckerna en avgörande publikationskanal av stor betydelse för fältets utveckling. Född 1930, hade Stig också egna erfarenheter av 1900-talets pedagogik och utbildning som han gärna delade med sig av, med många goda historier om möten med bland annat B.F. Skinner.
För mer om Stig, se https://undervisningshistoria.se/stig-g-nordstrom-1930-2023/
3. VÄGVAL i SKOLAN, NR 1 / 2023
Nytt nummer av Vägval, se https://undervisningshistoria.se/vagval-1-2023/
Inledning
Janne Holmén
Stig G. Nordström (1930-2023)
Sara Prytz & Esbjörn Larsson
Elisabet Rudhe – Över 10 år i vägvals tjänst
Henrik Edgren
Stockholms Lyceum -Skolan där Strindberg trivdes
Olle Meyer
Det kommunala inflytandet och det statliga styret – Grundskolans etablering i Arvika och Storfors 1950-1968
Åsa Melin
Anti-textbook ethos – Myten om de förkastliga läroböckerna
Jörgen Mattlar
3. PUBLIKATIONER
Berry, Gustav. (2023). Den självstyrda periferin: Lanthushållsundervisningen och styrningen av den svenska landsbygden, 1890-1970 (PhD dissertation, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis). Available at: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-499282
Fürst, H., Nylander, E. (2023). The Value of Art Education. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14061-7_1
Gurenwacht, Sebastian, Landquist, Linda & Saarnio, Maria (red.) (2023). 400 år av kunskap: jubileumsskrift 1623-2023 : Rudbeckianska gymnasiet i Västerås. [Västerås]: Västerås stad
Hellerstedt, Andreas (2023). Fostran i purpur: de karolinska kronprinsarnas lärare och undervisning. Nordic Academic Press
Hemstad, Ruth, Janicke S. Kaasa, Ellen Krefting and Aina Nøding (2023), Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century. Boydell & Brewer. Open Access: https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications/-259363/literary-citizenship-in-scandinavia-in-the-long-eighteenth-century
Högberg, Björn & Joakim Lindgren (2023) From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden, Comparative Education, 59:1, 18-37, DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2022.2140894
Larsson, Anna, Bergwik, Staffan & Östling, Johan (2023). Idéforum: Hur kan idéhistoria, kunskapshistoria och utbildningshistoria utvecklas i förhållande tillvarandra?. Lund: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet. https://journals.lub.lu.se/lychnos/article/download/25009/22079/63776
Skjönsberg, Max (2023) A Theory of the Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Nils von Rosenstein and Scotland’s Science of Man and Politics, Scandinavian Journal of History, DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879
Wikström, Charlott. (2023). Hjärnövermättning och hjärtehunger : bildningsideal och pedagogiska visioner i Emilia Fogelklous författarskap 1902–1931 (PhD dissertation, Umeå universitet). Available at: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-207744
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