Introduction

Joel Barnes, Jona T. Garz, Fanny Isensee, Joakim Landahl, Björn Lundberg, and Daniel Töpper


Part1: Sources for a History of Knowledge

Chapter 1

Educational knowledge in an early-nineteenth century boarding school: The case of Pestalozzi’s Institute in Yverdon

Rebekka Horlacher

Chapter 2

It’s an adult’s world! Children and their drawings as instruments in the process of scientific knowledge production

Michèle Hofmann

Chapter 3

“No greater merit than that of collecting”? Retracing Johann Friedrich Wilberg’s textbook curation to inform computational text reuse detection

Fabian Dombrowski and Maret Nieländer


Part2: Methods for Knowledge in Motion

Chapter 4

The teaching-research nexus in literary and philosophical societies in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain: The case of Manchester

Heather Ellis

Chapter 5

The Dutch niche: Teaching a marginalised and devalued language in Prussia, 1825–1852

Hendrik Holzmüller

Chapter 6

“Experts” and “learners”? Programa Diem/Projekt Argentinien as a case for tracing the methodological potential of knowledge circulation within postcolonial and unequal power contexts

Lilli Riettiens, Eduardo Galak, and Daniela Mansi


Part3: Rethinking Knowledge (in) Institutions

Chapter 7

Literacy in the “Driest of Sciences”: Statistical systems outside the state and their influence on school politics in Prussia (ca. 1859-1920)

Daniel Töpper

Chapter 8

Building knowledge about building schools: Research, experiments, dissemination and practice in Sweden 1950–1970

Johan Samuelsson and Fredrik Krohn Andersson

Chapter 9

Psychological school maturity testing in state-socialist Czechoslovakia: Expert knowledge as a shaping force in the history of education

Theofil Finsterschott

Chapter 10

Countercultural notions of the mother and the child? Shared and contested knowledges in experimental and non-experimental contexts of kindergartens in Zurich around 1970

Andrea De Vincenti