Associate Professor

Geert Thyssen

Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies
Geert Thyssen
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Field of work

I am Associate Professor in Educational Sciences, specialised in the History of Education. I support the Research Cluster "Critical and Practice-Oriented Educational Research" and teach on the Ph.D. programme "Studies of Bildung and Pedagogical Practices".

I am Link Convenor of Network 17, Histories of Education of the European Conference for Educational Research (ECER) of the European Educational Research Association (EERA).

I am Special Section Editor for the journal History of Education (Taylor and Francis), responsible for the feature section Workspace: Dialogues, Iterations, Provocations.

I am Principal Investigator on the research project Ph.D. Engage: Factors Influencing Ph.D. Experience and Completion in the Programme Studies on Bildung and Pedagogical Practices (Co-Investigator: Solvejg Jobst).

I have recently contributed to the following research project: PIONEERED (Horizon 2020): Pioneering Policies and Practices Tackling Educational Inequalities in Europe​​​​ --- Website: www.pioneered-project.eu (HVL work package leader: Solvejg Jobst).

Courses taught

I conduct research and teach on:

- history of education

- historiography of education

- educational theory

- science theory

- curriculum history and -theory

- particular topics relating to non-formal and informal education, intersectionality, inclusion and exclusion, (in)equality, etc.

Research areas

I conduct research and teach on:

- history of education

- historiography of education

- educational theory

- science theory

- curriculum history and -theory

- particular topics relating to non-formal and informal education, intersectionality, inclusion and exclusion, (in)equality, etc.

Publications

  • Closures and Apertures of Boundary as a Theoretical-Methodological Lens: Historiography of Education as Boundary-Drawing Knowledge Making

    Thyssen, Geert (2024)
    Rivista di Storia dell’Educazione 2024 ;Volum 11.(1) s. 21-38

  • Editorial–‘Workspace: Dialogues, Iterations, Provocations’–a new special section of History of Education

    Thyssen, Geert (2023)
    History of Education 2023 ;Volum 52.(1) s. 3-6

  • Cutting knots ‘together–apart’: threads of Western and Southern European history of education research

    Thyssen, Geert, Nawrotzki, Kristen, Paz, Ana Luísa, Pruneri, Fabio, Rogers, Rebecca (2023)
    History of Education 2023 ;Volum 52.(3) s. 399-420

  • ‚Ineinandergreifende Rädchen in der Schmiede’ von Zugehörigkeitsgefühlen? Industriebezogene Wald- bzw. Freiluftschulen in Luxemburg und Belgien

    Thyssen, Geert (2022)
    Mutations. Mémoires et Perspectives du Bassin Minier 2022 s. 129-145

  • Introduction

    Thyssen, Geert, Verstraete, Pieter, Herman, Frederik, Van Gorp, Angelo, Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah (2021)
    Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). s. 1-35

  • Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education

    Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah, Thyssen, Geert, Herman, Frederik, Van Gorp, Angelo, Verstraete, Pieter (2021)
    Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). Isbn: 9783110622508