This Standing Working Group has been founded during the ISCHE XXIII-Conference in Birmingham (2001). It is the purpose to investigate cross-cultural influences in different educational areas in history of education. Research fields are:
(1) Theories and ideas of education / Bildung
(2) Educational sciences / pedagogics
(3) Educational institutions
(4) Educational practice.
Questions concerning methods of research, influences and receptions between cultures and countries are in the center of research. It is asked which foreign influences played a role e.g. in the development of educational theories and institutions from kindergarten to university and in other pedagogical institutions (e.g. public youth organisations) and which influences these theories and institutions had in other countries. Other questions refer to the development and influences of networks, educational science and educational practice (e.g. of teachers) in different countries. Common questions referring to these different areas are: How can wen measure influences? How can we distinguish originality and adoption? When should we speak of adoption and which different forms of adoption can we distinguish: from simple acception to transformation to critical discussion and examination and even rejection? Which circumstances (knowledge of other languages, assumptions of values, practicability, national and international relations) make it easier or more difficult or impossible to adopt theories, institutional forms and practices from abroad? Finally one has to pay attention to central terms: Do the same or rather the translated corresponding words and terms in different languages mean the same (e.g. thinking on the German term "Bildung" and the English translation with "education")? In all cases the relations between different countries and cultures are central. It is the aim to recognise what different countries and cultures have in common and how they differ from each other.
This Standing Working Group had its first meeting during the ISCHE XXIV-Conference in Paris (July 11, 2002). For the programme for the following sessions look under the link "ISWG Cross-cultural Influences in History of Education, Programme 2004-2006".
For further information please contact the organising committee of this Standing Working Group:
- Prof. Dr. Marc Depaepe, University of Leuven, K.U. Leuven, Education Department, Vesaliusstraat 2, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, email: Marc.Depaepe@ped.kuleuven.ac.be
- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus-Peter Horn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, Institut für Allgemeine Pädagogik, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Deutschland, email: kphorn@educat.hu-berlin.de
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Lüth, Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Pädagogik, Postfach 60 15 53, D-14415 Potsdam, Deutschland, email: lueth@rz.uni-potsdam.de

International Standing Working Group on Cross-cultural Influences in History of Education within the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)

Planning of the next three sessions of the Standing Working Group during the ISCHE-Conferences 2004-2006

ISCHE XXVI (Geneva, 2004)

Informal and Formal Cross-cultural Networks in History of Modern Education

It is the purpose of this topic to investigate international networks in the area of education, their structures and meaning. The impacts of such networks on national and international discourses as well as on educational systems shall be in the center of research.

Bei diesem Thema geht es darum, internationale Netzwerke, ihre Strukturen und Bedeutung zu untersuchen. Dabei sollen die Auswirkungen solcher Netzwerke auf nationale und internationale Diskurse und Bildungssysteme im Mittelpunkt stehen.

First proposals (further proposals are welcome):

Philanthropic Networks and the History of Education
Jeroen J.H. Dekker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Ovide Decroly and the History of Educational Sciences: Nationally and Internationally
Marc Depape, University of Leuven, Belgium, Frank Simon, University of Gent, Belgium, Angelo Van Gorp, University of Leuven, Belgium

The Space of Academic Networking: International Educational Congresses After World War One
Eckhardt Fuchs, University of Mannheim, Germany

Networks by Letters and Journeyes: German Pedagogues and Their International Relationship
Klaus-Peter Horn, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Deutsch-französische Netzwerke im pädagogischen Diskurs im Umfeld der Französischen Revolution
Christoph Lüth, University of Potsdam, Germany


ISCHE XXVII (Sydney, 2005)

Cross-cultural Influences in the Development of Educational Theories

Science is not only at present an international enterprise. The Standing Working Group shall study the influences of other national cultures and discourses on the development of educational theories. Especially the processes of thematic and semantic transformations of the foreign as well as of the own body of knowledge and ideas shall be focussed on.

Nicht erst heute ist Wissenschaft ein internationales Geschäft. In der Arbeitsgruppe wird es darum gehen, die Einflüsse anderer nationaler Kulturen und Diskurse auf die Herausbildung pädagogischer Theorien zu untersuchen. Insbesondere werden dabei Prozesse der thematischen und semantischen Transformation der fremden und der eigenen Wissensbestände in den Blick genommen.


ISCHE XXVIII (2006, location of ISCHE XXVIII has not yet been decided)

Cross-cultural Receptions of Institutional Forms in History of Education

Not only educational theories and discourses, but also institutional forms of the educational system from kindergarten to university and other pedagogical institutions (e.g. public youth organisations) shall be investigated in an international context. One could ask, for example, how international organisations (e.g. World Fairs, League of Nations, UNESCO, OECD) had an impact on the development of national educational institutions. Other questions could be whether on can observe processes of assimilation of national institutions to foreign institutions, how such assimilations have been justified and how they took place. Which impact had reports of international experts in these processes?

Nicht nur pädagogische Theorien und Diskurse sind im internationalen Maßstab zu bearbeiten, sondern auch institutionelle Formen des Bildungssystems vom Kindergarten bis zur Universität sowie außerschulische pädagogische Institutionen wie z.B. staatliche Jugendorganisationen. Fragen könnten beispielsweise sein: Wie haben sich internationale Organisationen und Foren (z.B. Weltausstellungen, Völkerbund, UNESCO, OECD) auf nationale Institutionenbildung ausgewirkt? Gab es Angleichungsprozesse in der Ausformung je nationaler pädagogischer Institutionen, wie wurden sie begründet und wie gingen sie vonstatten? Welche Rolle spielten dabei internationale Expertenberichte?

Call for papers

All who are interested in these topics of the International Standing Working Group on Cross-cultural Influences in History of Education are kindly asked to send a proposal to one of the three organizers of this Workings Group by July 31, 2002 at the latest:
- Prof. Dr. Marc Depaepe, University of Leuven, K.U. Leuven, Education Department, Vesaliusstraat 2, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, email: Marc.Depaepe@ped.kuleuven.ac.be
- Priv.Doz. Dr. Klaus-Peter Horn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, Institut für Allgemeine Pädagogik, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Deutschland, email: kphorn@educat.hu-berlin.de
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Lüth, Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Pädagogik, Postfach 60 15 53, D-14415 Potsdam, Deutschland, email: lueth@rz.uni-potsdam.de

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Dear Colleagues,

the International Standing Working Group on Cross-cultural Influences in History of Education had its first meeting during the 24th session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) in Paris (July 11, 2002). In this session it has been decided to organise the next sessions during the ISCHE-Conferences 2004-2006. Following this decision we have worked out a programme for the next three sessions during the ISCHE-Conferences ISCHE XXVI, Geneva, 2004, ISCHE XXVII, Sydney, 2005, ISCHE XXVIII, 2006. It is planned to publish the contributions to the topics of these three sessions.

We have already received some proposals for the session in Genève (2004) (cf. the call for papers in the minutes of our Paris-meeting) and ask you kindly for additional proposals for this session ("Informal and Formal Cross-cultural Networks in History of Modern Education"). In order to plan the following meetings in a long-term we ask for proposals for the other two topics too:
(1) Cross-cultural Influences in the Development of Educational Theories (during the ISCHE XXVII-Conference 2005, Sydney),
(2) Cross-cultural Receptions of Institutional Forms in History of Education (during the ISCHE XXVIII-Conference 2006).
We would appreciate it very much if you could send your proposals to one of the organisers of the International Standing Working Group on Cross-cultural Influences in History of Education:
- Prof. Dr. Marc Depaepe, University of Leuven, K.U. Leuven, Education Department, Vesaliusstraat 2, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, email: Marc.Depaepe@ped.kuleuven.ac.be
- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus-Peter Horn, Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultaet IV, Institut für Allgemeine Paedagogik, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Deutschland, email: kphorn@educat.hu-berlin.de
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Lueth, Universitaet Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultaet, Institut für Paedagogik, Postfach 60 15 53, D-14415 Potsdam, Deutschland, email: lueth@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Please find the attached programme for the next three sessions as well as the conception for the Standing Working Group.

With kind regards also on behalf of Marc Depaepe and Klaus-Peter Horn

Yours Christoph Lueth