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International Standing Conference for the History of Education Education And Power: Historical Perspectives ABSTRACTS ISCHE 35 Riga August 21 – 24, 2013 Cover designe and layout – Rudīte Kravale ISBN 978-9934-517-08-2 Printing House: SIA “Latgales druka” Baznīcas iela 28, Rēzekne, LV-4601 www.druka.lv Publisher Reg. No. 40003199542 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4 CONFERENCE INFORMATION 5 Conference Theme 5 Local Organizing Committee 6 ISCHE Executive Committee 6 Reviewing Committee 6 Publication 7 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 8 Biographical Notes 8 Abstracts of Plenary Lectures 10 ABSTRACTS 15 Individual presentations 15 Panels 186 Standing Working Groups 202 Index/list of participants 214 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ISCHE 35 organizers: University of Latvia Baltic Association of Historians of Pedagogy ISCHE 35 sponsors: European Commission Riga City Council Jurmala City Council The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia Design of conference materials and webpage – Viviana Romislova ISCHE 35 LOC was supported by Jānis Aizpurs, Guna Anspoka, Ilze Dinka, Manuel Fernandez, Ligita Gaile, Nora Jansone-Ratinika, Andis Janovs, Linda Liepiņa, Andris Miškinskis, Mārtiņš Pētersons, Silvija Puriņa, Elita Stikute, Ērika Vugule, Lilita Znotiņa and Inna Žukovska from the University of Latvia as well as Reinis Grāvītis, Rasa Grāvīte, Unda Kaļķe, Anete Ķestere, Niklāvs Rubenis, Rūdolfs Rubenis and Kristīne Prole. Photo: Pagājušo gadu Latvija 1945 – 1990, Zvaigzne ABC, 2010, pp. 52-53. 4 CONFERENCE INFORMATION Conference Theme EDUCATION AND POWER: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Education per se is power, or so educators truly believe. Education is able to influence politics, the business environment, faith, teachers and parents, as well as the media. Throughout time, power in the field of education has been attempted to be realized, demonstrated, proven and imposed by a variety of actors: politicians, public figures, the clergy, business people, warlords, teachers, parents, and the mass media among others. The power structure has changed according to the political system, market economy, tradition, and even fashion. Therefore, ISCHE 35 will focus on the following issues: how does power – usurped or self- proclaimed, appointed, democratically or naturally won – act upon the field of education? How has power affected teachers and their education? How does teacher education affect power? How has power and education affected childhood and adolescence and has it influenced the lived identity of men and women? How is power reflected in curriculum, textbooks, and teaching aids? How do the educational sciences serve power, and how do they legitimize power? How can we identify and explain the relationship between power and education? How possible in the field of education is it to support, restrict, stimulate and deny through power? Does power encourage resistance and how does this occur? Is it possible to resist power in education? Conference sub-themes: 1. Power and educational policy 2. Power and the teacher 3. Power and childhood and youth 4. Power and curriculum, textbooks, and teaching materials 5. Power and informal education 6. Power and gender education 7. Power and inclusivity 8. Power and educational sciences 9. Power and education research methodology 5 Local Organizing Committee Dr. Iveta Ķestere, University of Latvia, Chief Researcher Dr. Aīda Krūze, University of Latvia, Professor Dr. Rudīte Andersone, University of Latvia, Professor Dr. Zanda Rubene, University of Latvia, Professor Dr. Irena Stonkuviene, University of Vilnius, Professor Dr. Alīda Zigmunde, Riga Technical University, Chief Researcher Dr. Baiba Kaļķe, University of Latvia, Assoc. Professor Dr. Dita Nīmante, University of Latvia, Assoc. Professor Dr. Aija Abens, University of Latvia Dr. Zane Āķīte, University of Latvia Vadim Rouk, University of Tallinn, PhD student Iveta Ozola, University of Latvia, PhD student Aija Grāvīte, University of Latvia, PhD student Evi Daga-Krūmiņa, University of Latvia, PhD student ISCHE Executive Committee Fuchs, Eckhardt, Georg Eckert Institute, TUB, Germany – President of ISCHE Bagchi, Barnita, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Carvalho, Marta Maria, Universidade de São Paulo Grosvenor, Ian, University of Birmingham, UK Hamel Thérèse, Université Laval, Canada Ķestere Iveta, University of Latvia McCulloch Gary, Institute of Education, UK Sobe Noa, Loyola University, USA Reviewing Committee Abens, Aija, University of Latvia Arrendondo, Adelina, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico Bagchi, Barnita, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Braster, Sjaak, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands Caruso, Marcelo, Humboldt University, Germany Carvalho, Marta Maria, Universidade de São Paulo Del Mar Del Pozo, Maria, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain Depaepe, Marc, University of Leuven, Belgium Fuchs, Eckhardt, Georg Eckert Institute, TUB, Germany Grosvenor, Ian, University of Birmingham, UK Hamel Thérèse, Université Laval, Canada Hofstetter Rita, University of Geneva 6 Kallaway Peter, UCT School of Education, South Africa Ķestere Iveta, University of Latvia Krūze, Aīda, University of Latvia Mayer Christine, University of Hamburg, Germany McCulloch Gary, Institute of Education, UK Mikser Rain, Tallinn University, Estonia Rubene Zanda, University of Latvia Rogers Rebecca, Université Paris Descartes, France Rousmaniere Kate, Miami University, USA Simon Frank, University of Gent, Belgium Šnē Andris, University of Latvia Sobe Noa, Loyola University, USA Stonkuviene Irena, Vilnius University, Lithuania Straube Gvido, University of Latvia Verstraete Pieter, University of Leuven, Belgium Whitehead Kay, Flinders University, Australia Zelče Vita, University of Latvia Zemītis Guntis, Latvian Academy of Sciences Zigmunde Alīda, Riga Technical University, Latvia Publication A selection of papers presented at ISCHE 35 will be published in a special issue of Paedagogica Historica. Scholars are encouraged to submit their complete papers to the local organizing committee to be considered for inclusion. Deadline for submission of papers is 1 October 2013. An electronic version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail attachment to [email protected] The authors will be notified of acceptance before 31 December 2013. 7 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Biographical Notes MARC DEPAEPE Marc Depaepe (1953) is Vice-rector of the KU Leuven, rector at the campus Kortrijk: Kulak and professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches at the Leuven and Kortrijk campuses. Over his more than 35-year-long career, he has achieved world-wide recognition in the field of the history of education. He is, among other things, co-editor- in-chief of Paedagogica Historica (since 2005) and member of several editorial boards of national history of education journals. He is the former secretary (1989-1991) and chair (1992-1994) of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. He attended 28 of 34 ISCHE conferences and was the local organizer of the 25th meeting in Kortrijk. Moreover, he chaired the Belgian Dutch Society for the History of Education (1998-2002) and is former vice-president of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Historische und Systematische Schulbuchforschung (1997-2007). Since 2010, he is also a Fellow, and since 2012, member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Education. He has read lectures and presented papers in approximately 40 countries. His publication list contains more than 600 items in 17 languages. Several of them have been co-authored by colleagues and collaborators. His research interests include (1) the history of educational sciences from an international perspective; (2) the history of education in Belgium (mainly primary and preschool education); (3) the history of colonial education in the former Belgian Congo; and (4) the historiography, theory and methodology of the history of education as a discipline. been by Leuven University Press has recently published some of his work in the book Between Educationalization and Appropriation (2012). MARIS VINOVSKIS Maris A. Vinovskis was born in Riga, Latvia during World War II and immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a Bentley Professor of History at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, and professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He has published ten books, edited seven books, and written over 100 scholarly essays. His most recent books are History and Educational Policymaking (1999), Revitalizing Federal Education Research (2001), The Birth of Head Start (2005) and From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind (2009). Vinovskis was Deputy Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population (1978) and a frequent consultant on population and adolescent pregnancy issues in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the early 1980s. He worked in the U.S. 8 Department of Education in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations on educational research and policy. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate several times on education issues in the 1990s. Vinovskis was a member of the congressionally-mandated Independent Review Panels for Goals 2000 and No Child Left Behind during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and was elected to the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, Fellow at the American Educational Research Association and President of the History of Education Society. ALBERTO MARTÍNEZ BOOM Doctor