Education and the European Digital Agenda
Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970
The project
Technological issues are enjoying a boom in many areas of educational research and in education policies.
Historical perspectives, however, are still rare. Instead, research on “educational technologies” and “technology education” often works under the assumption that these are new problems without any historical conditions. This project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) can help develop a long-term perspective and consider its own research against the background of earlier attempts.
OUTLINE AND OBJECTIVES
It is commonly assumed that the new information and communications technologies are a huge challenge for the traditional systems of public schooling, higher education and vocational education and training. This project is concerned with how this challenge has been met in Europe during the first decades after the microchip started restructuring businesses, administration and daily life. It reconstructs how the educational implications of technological change have been faced politically between 1970 and the end of the dotcom boom around 2000. The project focuses especially on the political initiatives regarding secondary schooling, vocational education and training, adult and higher education.
Team
Education and the European Digital Agenda
Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970
International Reference Group
Anne Rohstock, Germany
Jane Gingrich, UK
Johannes Westberg, Sweden
Lucien Criblez, Switzerland
Magnus Hultén, Sweden
Sabine Reh, Germany
Timeline
News
February 6-7, 2020
Workshop in Zurich with international reference group.
October 16, 2019
Carmen Flury won the University of Zurich Semester Award for her MA thesis on higher education policy discourse in Switzerland in the 1970’s.
May 27, 2019
Barbara Emma Hof received the ISCHE Early Career Paper Award for her article “The Turtle, the Mouse, and the Invention of Constructivist Learning Theory”.
March 7, 2019
Paper presentation at NERA 2019, Regulating an Uncertain Future: Technology and the Role of Education after 1970