Network Activities

The network has organised a very successful European Summer School for History of Education Doctoral Students over the past two years initially jointly funded by EERA and the Stichting Paedagogica Historica. EERA funding was for two years. The summer schools organised over the next three years will be jointly funded by the Stichting Paedagogica Historica and the History of Education Society, UK. They will be open to any doctoral student outside of Europe. It has been agreed with the Rector of the University of Lisbon that the Faculty of Education will host the next Summer School in June 2012 and Maria Mogarro, Joaquim Pintassilgo and Network 17 link convenor Helena Ribeiro de Castro will be involved locally. There is interest from the University of Groningen and the University of Hamburg to host the event in subsequent years.

Network 17 is participating in ISCHE’s Standing Working Group on Educational Media that started in 2008 for a period of five years.
Members of Network 17 are participating in an international project on ‘Documentary Film in Educational Research. Producing Methodologies’ (British Academy Grant). This project, which was running from Spring 2009 until Spring 2010 along three seminars (taking place in Ghent, Birmingham and Edinburgh) will result in a special issue of Paedagogica Historica (August 2011).
In June 2010 Network 17 organized the first edition of a “Histories of Education Summer School” in Ghent, Belgium, supported by the European Educational Research Association (EERA), the Paedagogica Historica Foundation and the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE).

Future Activities and Developments

A second edition of the “Histories of Education Summer School” will take place in June 2011 in Birmingham. This summer school is for postgraduate history of education researchers registered at European universities and post-doctoral historians of education who are interested in the histories of European educational spaces and discourses and new ways of working with images, artefacts and archives (check the ‘summer / spring schools’ in the menu left for more information). Stimulated by the success of the first edition the network will try to continue this initiative.

The network intends to develop its website and will work on a plan whereby a range of integrated activities and projects (e.g. the documentary film project) will be presented there.