1. SAVE THE DATE: THE 10TH NORDIC EDUCATION HISTORY CONFERENCE (2028)
2. TOC: NORDIC JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY 2026:1
3.CfP: THIRD INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
4. CfP: THE EVERYDAY IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONHOOD AND NATIONALISMS CONFERENCE
5. VÄGVAL SPECIALNUMMER 2026: LÄRARREKRYTERING VID OLOFSFORS BRUK OCH LANTLIG UTBILDNING VID HAMRA LANTMANNASKOLA RUNT ÅR 1900
6. CfA: SUMMER SCHOOL 2027: EDUCATIONAL TEMPORALITIES: RE-CONSTRUCTING TIME IN/FOR THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION (LEUVEN)
7. PUBLIKATIONER
1. SAVE THE DATE: THE 10TH NORDIC EDUCATION HISTORY CONFERENCE (2028)
The 10th Nordic Education History Conference (or Nordic Education History Conference X) will be organized by Merethe Roos (USN Norway) and Kim Helsvig (Oslo Met).
A Call for Papers will follow, but the dates are now set: 22-24 May, 2028. Save this date!
Stay tuned for more updates on location, keynotes etc.
For more information about past conferences, see https://utbildningshistoria.se/nordiska-konferenser/
2. TOC: NORDIC JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY 2026:1
The complete issue (including numerous book reviews), see https://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/issue/view/93
**Editorial**
Notes from the Editorial Team — Henrik Åström Elmersjö
**Thematic section**
Introduction: Educating Newcomers for the Modern Welfare State: Danish Frontline Organisations as Educational Sites and Drivers of Knowledge from the Late 1960s to the Late 1990s — Mette Buchardt & Karen N. Breidahl
Educating Refugees to the Welfare State: Educational Social Integration and Language Education in the Danish Refugee Council from the late 1960s to the 1980s — Sophy Bergenheim
Frontline Organisations as Sites for Political Learning: Managing Asylum Waiting Time in the Formative Years (1983–1988) of the Danish Asylum System — Karen N. Breidahl & Siv Holm Hjortlund
Educating Immigrants – Educating about Immigrants: Suburban Social Housing as a Knowledge Hub for Danish Welfare-State Integration Politics 1970s–1980s — Mette Buchardt
**Open section**
From the Margins to the Centre: The Emergence of Holocaust Education in Scandinavia (1990–2023) — Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen, Anders Granås Kjøstvedt, Karin Kvist Geverts, Solvej Berlau & Stine Thuge
Skolans svenskämne i 1900-talets språk- och litteraturvetenskapliga forskning — Per Holmberg & Bengt‑Göran Martinsson
Etisk kristendom som utbildning för demokrati: Svenska folkskollärares pedagogiska anpassning av kristendomsundervisningen, 1920–1940 — Emma Hellström
Women First: Gender and Spatial Agency Bias in Swedish Geography and Civics Textbook Illustrations, 1947–2023 — Janne Holmén & Mariia Daletskaia
Eftermiddagshemmet och 1930- och 1940-talets befolkningspolitik: Lösningsförslag, problemformuleringar och barnperspektiv — Anne‑Li Lindgren, Tünde Puskás & Helene Elvstrand
3. CfP: THIRD INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
The third History of Knowledge Conference will be organized in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. Utrecht University is home of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities, and together with the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences home of the field’s flagship Journal for the History of Knowledge.
In recent years, history of knowledge has developed into a vibrant field of interdisciplinary research and scholarship around the globe. The History of Knowledge Conference will gather scholars with a diversity of backgrounds to further develop the field and its impact on other disciplines and on society. Fostering inclusivity, we welcome all scholars working on the history of knowledge in the broadest sense, and contributions on any period, region and topic are welcome, as long as they are clearly related and relevant to the history of knowledge. However, we particularly encourage the submission of contributions that tie in with the central theme of the conference: Decentering the History of Knowledge.
Submissions
We invite submissions for individual papers, for panels, and for a broad and open category of other contributions. All submissions should be sent by mail to mail to: HoKconference27@uu.nl Deadline for all submissions is 15 December 2026
For more information, see https://www.uu.nl/en/news/call-for-contributions-third-international-history-of-knowledge-conference
4. CfP: THE EVERYDAY IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONHOOD AND NATIONALISMS CONFERENCE
The Everyday in the History of Nationhood and Nationalisms Conference, organised by the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Nationalism Research in the Humanities (NARS), takes place at Tampere University, Finland May 12-14, 2027.
The First NARS Conference will examine how the everyday has shaped, negotiated, legitimized, and challenged nationalisms, and continues to do so. How have people produced and contested national meanings in different ways and in their encounters with mundane institutions, practices, spaces and objects? To what extent is the episodic, fluctuating, and asymmetrical nature of nationalism due to everyday encounters of individuals and groups with national(ist) affordances? More fundamentally, what does the “everyday” signify in everyday nationalism, and what influences its changing meanings?
The Call for Proposals is open until 30 October 2026.
For more information, see https://events.tuni.fi/narsconference2027/
5. VÄGVAL SPECIALNUMMER 2026: LÄRARREKRYTERING VID OLOFSFORS BRUK OCH LANTLIG UTBILDNING VID HAMRA LANTMANNASKOLA RUNT ÅR 1900
I detta specialnummer av Vägval presenteras två artiklar med olika fokus, men med tydliga beröringspunkter. Det som främst skiljer artiklarna åt är den undersökta utbildningsnivån. Den ena artikeln undersöker folkskola i en bruksort på gränsen mellan Ångermanland och Västerbotten, medan den andra artikeln beskriver en lantmannaskola för bönder och jordbrukare i Östergötland vilka siktar mot en examen som förmän för lantbruk.
Sammantaget synliggör de två artiklarna hur utbildningens organisering och utveckling formades i mötet mellan lokala förutsättningar och statliga direktiv. Trots att artiklarna behandlar olika skolformer och geografiska sammanhang visar båda betydelsen av hur ramfaktorer på både lokal, regional och nationell nivå påverkat vårt skolväsende genom historien. Artiklarna är också exempel på hur mindre fallstudier tillsammans bidrar till kunskapsområdet om komplexiteten i skolväsendets förflutna,
Innehåll:
Lärarrekrytering vid Olofsfors bruk och Lantlig utbildning vid Hamra Lantmannaskola runt år 1900, Charlott Wikström (redaktör) Lina Spjut (gästredaktör)
Lärarrekrytering på lokal nivå, konsekvenser av en kombinerad lärartjänst vid Olofsfors bruksskola sekelskiftet 1900, Lina Spjut
Hamra Lantmannaskola: lantlig utbildning för 100 år sedan, Per Milberg
Hela numret finns tillgängligt här: https://undervisningshistoria.se/vagval-specialnummer-2026-lararrekrytering-vid-olofsfors-bruk-och-lantlig-utbildning-vid-hamra-lantmannaskola-runt-ar-1900/
6. SUMMER SCHOOL 2027: EDUCATIONAL TEMPORALITIES: RE-CONSTRUCTING TIME IN/FOR THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
The Sixth Histories of Education Summer School will, for the third time in a row, take place in the city center of Leuven. Dates: Monday July 5 and will end on Friday July 9, 2027. Prior, one online preparatory meetings will take place in the first week of July. An online closing session will take place the week after.
The 2027 Histories of Education Summer school invites emerging historians of education to explore what happens when we place time and temporalities at the centre of our historical inquiries. It encourages participants to investigate how educational practices and environments have organised, disciplined, represented, experienced, and imagined time across a broad variety of settings, while also reflecting critically on the temporal categories through which historians themselves make sense of educational pasts.
Academic coordinators: Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde & Pieter Verstraete (University of Leuven, Belgium) & Johannes Westberg (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Applications are open from 19 October, 2026.
Deadline for applications is January 3, 2027 (23:59 CEST).
For questions about registration: hoesummerschool@kuleuven.be
For more information, see https://www.kuleuven.be/english/summer-schools/history-of-education/history-of-education-summerschool-2027
7. PUBLIKATIONER
Augestad, P. (2026). From Shared Practises to Gendered Meanings: Girls’ Gymnastics and the Making of Femininity in Norwegian Schools, 1889–1925. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2026.2735441
Boström, Johan. Building and construction in preschool – between policy classification and children’s learning. International Journal of Technology and Design Education (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-026-10127-1
Engwall, Kristina. (2026). Constructing age: Categorisation and everyday practice at an institution for “the difficult to care for, uneducable feebleminded” at Vipeholm (Sweden), 1935-1963. Alter, 20(3), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.4000/16tvm
Hennings, M.-E. (2026). Constructing the Medieval Past in Primary Education: Two Examples of How 1870s Schoolbooks Depict the Christianisation of Finland. Mirator, 26(1), 34-55. https://journal.fi/mirator/article/view/179867
Isensee, Fanny, Rosén Rasmussen, Lisa, Wähler, Josefine. Interweaving Peripheries, Transient Objectives and Morphing Spaces of School and Schooling, (Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, 2026), 10.3726/b20555
Johansson, Ingela, Henrik Rahm, and Carmen Sanchidrián Blanco. 2026. “The Wonderful and Winding Journeys of Nils Holgersson in Spain.” History of Education & Children’s Literature 21 (1). https://doi.org/10.63277/hecl.v21i1.5298
Josefsson, Jonathan. (2026). Generational fears, democratic threats: A political history of unruly young people. Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682261492101
Olsen, Stephanie. (2026). Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War. History of Education, 55(3), 269–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2551548
Westberg, Johannes (2026), ”Preamble: The Value of Research that is Local, National and International”, in Giusy Denaro, Il mestiere di maestra nel XIX secolo tra retoriche sontuose e sfide quotidiane. Il caso della Provincia di Catania (1861-1914) [The profession of teaching in the 19th century: the Province of Catania (1861-1914)]. Diss., University of Catania, 9-14.
