Cutting knots 'together-apart': threads of Western and Southern European history of education research

• Published in: History of education (Tavistock) Vol. 52; no. 2-3; pp. 399 - 420
• Main Authors: Thyssen, Geert, Nawrotzki, Kristen, Paz, Ana Luísa, Pruneri, Fabio, Rogers, Rebecca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 04-05-2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: academic journals, conferences, awards, and prizes; Awards; Conferences (Gatherings); Cross Cultural Studies; discipline formation; Education history; Educational History; Educational research; European history; Foreign Countries; Historiography; Historiography and methodology; Intellectual Disciplines; Networks; Periodicals; re-diffraction; Regional variations; transnational entanglements; Trend Analysis; Netherlands; Austria; Belgium; Europe; Luxembourg; France; Switzerland; Germany; Spain
• ISSN: 0046-760X; 1464-5130
• DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2023.2166596

This article presents a state of the art of the history of education in Western and Southern Europe by 'cutting together-apart' (Barad) 'knotting-s' (Ingold), in terms of both discipline formation and historiography across and beyond countries in these regions. It (dis)entangles national and regional particularities in terms of approaches, themes and constraints, and contributions to thriving international networks in the history of education. It sketches local trends and developments of the last 30 years and situates these within their differently evolving national and/or language-based disciplinary and institutional landscapes. Its snapshots of the history of education across the Benelux, Germany and Germanophone regions, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and France highlight the contribution and interaction of national/linguistic intellectual traditions, institutional nodes of activity, (inter)disciplinary identities, methods and approaches, and vibrant scholarly communities.