1. CfP SPECIAL ISSUE: GENDER AND EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC EYE
2. THE NORDIC EDUCATION HISTORY CONFERENCE X: 2028
3. 9th ZURICH WORKSHOP ON HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
4. VÄGVAL 2025/1: KVINNOR OCH UTBILDNING I OFFENTLIGHETENS LJUS
5. CfP: THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
6. PUBLIKATIONER
1. CfP SPECIAL ISSUE: GENDER AND EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC EYE: TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES IN PRINT
Call for Papers: Special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, to be published in 2027.
Editors: Badegül Eren-Aydınlık, Charlott Wikström and Emma Vikström, Umeå University.
Since the 1800s, print media has been an important vehicle for disseminating knowledge and promoting civic engagement. Rather than focusing on traditional educational institutions such as girls’ and boys’ schools, teacher training programmes, or women’s entry into higher education, this special issue centres on how gender and education was constructed and negotiated in the public eye in various international contexts.
For this special issue, we invite papers that explore the mid-nineteenth to twentieth centuries as a period of increased participation of educators in public debates, and a growing awareness of political and social norms regarding gender. Submissions should focus on the intersections of gender and education in print media. Drawing on the metaphor of ‘printscapes’ (Noonan, 2020), we are interested in the dimensions of place and movement in print, and how transnational and comparative perspectives can enrich our understanding of educational history. Our intention is to spark dialogue about the theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and opportunities that arise when engaging with transnational histories of gender and education in print. The special issue will thus contribute to the intersecting fields of print history, gender history, and the history of education.
Although the Nordic Journal of Educational History focuses primarily on Northern Europe, this special issue welcomes contributions from all geographical contexts. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Representations and constructions of gender and education in print media
• Gendered silences, censorship and editorial conventions of educational print
• Transnational printscapes examining the place and movement of gender and education
• Microhistories and print history from below
• Theories and methodologies exploring gender and education in print
Timeframe and submission of abstracts
• 30 September 2025: Submission of abstracts (500 words, including key references) to Charlott Wikström (charlott.wikstrom@umu.se). Please provide the title of the paper, names, affiliations and email addresses of authors and 3–5 keywords. The abstract should indicate how the article will address key themes of the call, theoretical and methodological perspectives, source material and preliminary results and conclusions.
• October 2025: Decision on which abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper.
• 15 May 2026: Submission of full papers for external review (8,000–10,000 words, including footnotes and concluding reference list).
Please e-mail abstracts and questions to: charlott.wikstrom@umu.se For complete CfP, and more info, see https://utbildningshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250513-cfp-njedh-gender-and-education-in-the-public-eye.pdf
2. THE NORDIC EDUCATION HISTORY CONFERENCE X: 2028
The 9th Nordic Education History Conference ”Power and Resistance” took was arranged by Joakim Landahl and Johanna Ringarp, and their collegues, on 14-16 May 2025. In total, 176 participants from 18 different countries.
At the conference dinner, it was announced who will organize the next conference in 2028: prof. Merethe Roos (USN Norway) and prof. Kim Helsvig (Oslo Met). More info will follow in due time, including information concerning conference theme. Some insights into possible themes might be gathered from their websites:
https://www.usn.no/kontakt-oss/tilsette/merethe-roos
https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/kimguhe/
Updates will be published via this newsletter and here: https://utbildningshistoria.se/nordiska-konferenser/
3. 9th ZURICH WORKSHOP ON HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
The 9th Zurich Workshop on Historical Educational Research is aimed at doctoral students who want to present and discuss fundamental questions of historical educational research based on their dissertation projects. Designed as a platform for exchange among doctoral candidates, the workshop’s focus is on presenting and discussing the current state of the students’ work, concentrating on methodological and theoretical reflections rather than content-related discussions.
The contributions should focus on how research questions, theoretical and methodological premises, as well as sources and research literature, are related. Additionally, they should demonstrate the research interest pursued, and the research context in which the expected results are situated. The workshop addresses the diversity of current research approaches and aims to explore the potential of interdisciplinary methodological considerations for historical research in education. Accordingly, the following guiding questions are central to the presentations and subsequent discussions:
How do the selected sources fit the research question and the subject that is to be described and analysed? How can the selection of sources be justified?
What type of sources does the theoretical framework require? With which theoretical assumptions is the material organized, structured, and analyzed? What terminology is introduced and how is it used?
How is the presentation of the results structured? What phenomena or considerations should be substantiated or refuted with the results?
What methodological considerations are made? What historiographical potentials and contributions arise from the chosen perspective? What comes into focus, and what remains unseen?
The Call for Papers is exclusively aimed at doctoral candidates working on a topic relevant to the history of education, no matter the discipline in which the doctorate is pursued.
Applications must be submitted via email to werkstatt@ife.uzh.ch by October 31, 2025.
The application should include:
The presentation title
An abstract of no more than one A4 page explicitly addressing the above-mentioned questions
A short curriculum vitae
The speaking time for presentations is a maximum of 20 minutes. The workshop will be accompanied by Prof. Michaela Vogt and Dr. Lukas Boser Hofmann, who will provide feedback on the presentations, participate in discussions, and share insights from their research experience.
Expenses for accommodation are paid by the University of Zurich. Travel expenses are to be covered by the participants themselves. To enable a high-quality discussion, the number of speakers is limited. If there is a high number of applications, in addition to the quality of the abstracts, the diversity of contributions (methodological, theoretical, thematic) will be taken into account.
4. VÄGVAL 2025/1: KVINNOR OCH UTBILDNING I OFFENTLIGHETENS LJUS
Inledning
Janne Holmén, Ordförande FSUH
Kvinnor och utbildning i offentlighetens ljus under 1900-talet
Charlott Wikström (Redaktör) & Badegül Eren-Aydinlik (Gästredaktör)
Från Sverige till Turkiet: Transnationell cirkulation av idrott och folkbildning
Badegül Eren-Aydinlik
Skolflickor i svenska flickböcker utgivna 1900–1925
Caroline Bergström
Två pedagogiska röster om bildningens väg i Tidevarvet i samband med 1927 års skolreform
Charlott Wikström
Kvinnlig organisering vid Chalmers tekniska högskola 1955–1974
Petronella Rosenquist
Numret finns fritt tillgängligt på: https://undervisningshistoria.se/
5. CfP: THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our next Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa in Winchester, England on Friday the 16th of November to Sunday 18th of November.
The theme this year is ‘Gender, Networks and Leadership in the history of education’, inspired by Professor Joyce Goodman MBE
Submission deadline: Thursday 31st of July 2025
For more info, see https://historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
6. PUBLIKATIONER
Ahlgren, Ahlgren. (2025). Att bli elev: En genealogisk studie av skolstartens normaliserande villkor (PhD dissertation, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, Stockholms universitet). https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241707
Barow, Thomas. (2025). Undervisning av ”de andra” i historiskt perspektiv. Wåger, J. & Östlund, D. (red.). Ämnesdidaktik för elever med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning: hållbart och meningsfullt lärande. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 169-196.
Borgström, Eric, Martin Karlsson, and Christian Lundahl. 2025. “Decoding School Marketisation – Exploring Computational Analytics in Large-Scale Policy Data.” Learning, Media and Technology, May, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2505555
Bredmar, Anna-Carin, and Katarina Ellborg. 2025. “Bilder Av Svensk Skola I SVT — En Kritisk Analys Baserad På Tv-Serierna Vem mördade Skolan? Och Det Svenska Skolexperimentet”. Educare, no. 2 (June):131-68. https://doi.org/10.63310/edu.2025.2.54825.
Burman, Anders, Landahl, Joakim, Larsson, Anna (2025). Pedagogikens århundrade: Uppkomsten och utvecklingen av en vetenskaplig disciplin. Makadam. https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/pedagogikens-arhundrade-uppkomsten-och-utvecklingen-av-en-vetenskaplig-9789170615092
Hamberg, Anna. (2025). Om ett nytt universitetshus i Uppsala : Tillkomst, gestaltning och performativa rum under 1800-talets tre sista decennier (PhD dissertation, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis). https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-550044
Heikkuri, Suvi. 2025. “Unravelling Income Differentials: Exploring the Decline in Skill Premiums in Twentieth-Century Sweden.” Scandinavian Economic History Review, May, 1–22. doi:10.1080/03585522.2025.2492564.
Hultén, Magnus, Maria Jarl, Johan Samuelsson (2025). Skolans målstyrning 1900-2020: Från progressivism till nyliberalism. Nordic Academic Press, 2025. OA: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-213630
Lindgren, Anne Li. (2025). The HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Swedish National Agency for Education: strategising to safeguard a school perspective during a national crisis. Paedagogica Historica, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2025.2500712
Lindgren, Anne-Li, & Grunditz, Sofia. (2025). Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records. Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682251346649
Medberg, Sara (2025). ”Studier, som kunna göra dem yra i hufwudet” : Högreståndsflickors uppfostran och kvinnoidealet i unga kvinnors uppförandemanualer 1699–1768 i Sverige. Diss. Helsingfors. OA: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/595298
Westberg, Johannes, Hellström, Emma och Larsson, Esbjörn (red.). Utbildningshistorisk forskning under 2000-talet: Det utbildningshistoriska nätverket, forskningsmiljöer, konferenser och föreningar. Uppsala, 2025. 321 pp. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-552637
Westerberg, Andreas. 2025. “Teaching Ideals and Materiality during the Establishment of the Swedish Comprehensive School 1949–1972.” Paedagogica Historica, April, 1–21. doi:10.1080/00309230.2025.2492049.
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