Geert Thyssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1032898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geert Thyssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geert |
| FAMILY NAME | Thyssen |
| SIGNATURE | THYSSEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Luxembourg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arte urbano y costero y reconfiguración corpórea de la educación: Un análisis entre sí de «StreetWise» y «One Ocean–Ocean Portrait» como casos de narración artística colaborativa
En este artículo, analizamos entre sí de dos casos glocales de investigación artivista colaborativa (StreetWise y One Ocean–Ocean Portrait), explorando las posibilidades que ofrecen para la historia de la educación figuraba como «reconfiguración corpórea» (Barad), o «recuerdo» a través de «narración» (Ingold) en términos de una búsqueda y realización de conocimiento comprometida y situada. Ambos casos representan proyectos activistas basados en l…
Imagining trans past yet to come: A reparative essay in the aid of decolonising historiography of education
As nonbinary trans and cis gay scholars, respectively, we queer the potential of a history of education committed to recovering trans, gender-nonconforming, and queer existences erased by Western colonial violence. Drawing on the case of António Custódio das Neves (1858–1888), born in Portugal and assigned female at birth but growing up male and called the “Woman Man” or “Man Woman”, we confront colonialist erasure of such existences. Through “cr…
Cutting knots ‘together–apart’: Threads of Western and Southern European history of education research
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…
Odorous childhoods and scented worlds of learning: A sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives in Western Europe (1900s-1960s)
This paper develops a sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives which featured (non-)formal schooling, analyzing these as belonging to (a) scent(ed) and more generally sense(d) world(s) of learning. Working with photographs as sensory objects of affect, and using as examples Belgian and Luxembourg open-air schools and associated sanitary and social welfare provisions, the paper explores issues so far under-researched in sensuous…
Learning to make sense: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory Education and Embodied Enculturation
In this introductory essay we examine through a ‘temporally inflected lens’ some of the complex entanglements of learning, senses, and sense making; body-sensory experience and practice; and culture and society. We thereby aim to bring into dialogue inter-/multisensorial approaches to education as a project and praxis and processes of ‘enculturation’, which have always, in one way or the other, involved ‘embodied’ learning (and imaginaries thereo…
Differences That Might Matter?: A Manifesto Diffractively Read
Differences That Might Matter? A Manifesto Diffractively Read
To write a manifesto is to expose oneself — to make oneself vulnerable to critique. In the case of a co-authored piece, it is also to show oneself to one’s co-writers (colleagues and perhaps friends). Yet, such vulnerability, which is moreover a vulner-ability to one’s self, forces one to take a close look in the mir-ror, and this includes those who are invited to deliver a reply as well. I find myself in that fortunate position. It is indeed wit…
Boundlessly entangled: Non-/Human Performances of Education for Health Through Open-Air Schools
This article starts from histoire croisée to develop a genuinely relational analysis of performances of health education in the context of open-air schools. It interrogates, through places, people, and things conceived of as being performatively entangled, the notion of an internationalisation of school hygiene. These places, people, and things - "international" conferences and exhibitions, "figureheads" of the aspiring New Schools and open-air s…
A critical review of the literature on school dropout
Mobilising meaning: Multimodality, translocation, technology and heritage
2007 the Maurits De Vroede Prize by the British and Dutch History of Education Society, respectively.His interests are in the social-cultural history of education with a
Puppets on a string in a theatre of display? Interactions of image, text, material, space and motion in The Family of Man (ca. 1950s–1960s)
In the past few decades, increasing attention has been devoted within various disciplines to aspects previously considered trivial, among which are images, material objects and spaces. While the visual, the material and the spatial are receiving ever more consideration and the myriad issues surrounding them are being tackled, their convergence in educational settings across time and space has thus far remained underexplored. A travelling photo ex…
The stranger within: Luxembourg’s early school system as a European prototype of nationally legitimized international blends (ca. 1794–1844)
This comparative analysis of Luxembourg's early school (law) system reveals the extent to which European school systems reflect "national-cultural idiosyncrasies" apart from "structural isomorphism". It first examines the legal soil into which the Luxembourg school system was implanted. Legislative pendular swings, reflecting shifts in power relations, cultural–linguistic affinities and so on, determined the direction in which the school system w…
Essor et déclin d'une école de plein air: Le Centre Dupré de Roubaix (vers 1921-1978)
À ce jour des spécialistes ont toujours tendance à souligner l'approche holistique, innovante et centrée sur l'enfant des écoles de plein air. Une hypothèse tacite liée à cette idée consiste en ce que les promoteurs des écoles de plein air furent à l'origine d'un véritable « mouvement », qui a évolué naturellement et apporté des « progrès » en matière d'éducation, d'architecture, etc. Ayant établi que cela n'est pas conforme aux données historiqu…
The “Trotter” open‐air school, Milan (1922–1977): A city of youth or risky business
This article inserts the concept of risk in the context of open‐air schools and investigates its implications, capacities and limits. It is contended that applying at‐risk labels to pupils who attended open‐air schools is itself a risky business. The category to some extent constitutes an anomaly within most open‐air schools’ histories, as much of what it would come to denote, did not yet exist as such when these institutes arose and flourished. …
Learning to make sense: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory Education and Embodied Enculturation
In this introductory essay we examine through a ‘temporally inflected lens’ some of the complex entanglements of learning, senses, and sense making; body-sensory experience and practice; and culture and society. We thereby aim to bring into dialogue inter-/multisensorial approaches to education as a project and praxis and processes of ‘enculturation’, which have always, in one way or the other, involved ‘embodied’ learning (and imaginaries thereo…
Boundlessly entangled: Non-/Human Performances of Education for Health Through Open-Air Schools
This article starts from histoire croisée to develop a genuinely relational analysis of performances of health education in the context of open-air schools. It interrogates, through places, people, and things conceived of as being performatively entangled, the notion of an internationalisation of school hygiene. These places, people, and things - "international" conferences and exhibitions, "figureheads" of the aspiring New Schools and open-air s…
Mobilising meaning: Multimodality, translocation, technology and heritage
2007 the Maurits De Vroede Prize by the British and Dutch History of Education Society, respectively.His interests are in the social-cultural history of education with a
The stranger within: Luxembourg’s early school system as a European prototype of nationally legitimized international blends (ca. 1794–1844)
This comparative analysis of Luxembourg's early school (law) system reveals the extent to which European school systems reflect "national-cultural idiosyncrasies" apart from "structural isomorphism". It first examines the legal soil into which the Luxembourg school system was implanted. Legislative pendular swings, reflecting shifts in power relations, cultural–linguistic affinities and so on, determined the direction in which the school system w…
The “Trotter” open‐air school, Milan (1922–1977): A city of youth or risky business
This article inserts the concept of risk in the context of open‐air schools and investigates its implications, capacities and limits. It is contended that applying at‐risk labels to pupils who attended open‐air schools is itself a risky business. The category to some extent constitutes an anomaly within most open‐air schools’ histories, as much of what it would come to denote, did not yet exist as such when these institutes arose and flourished. …
Odorous childhoods and scented worlds of learning: A sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives in Western Europe (1900s-1960s)
This paper develops a sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives which featured (non-)formal schooling, analyzing these as belonging to (a) scent(ed) and more generally sense(d) world(s) of learning. Working with photographs as sensory objects of affect, and using as examples Belgian and Luxembourg open-air schools and associated sanitary and social welfare provisions, the paper explores issues so far under-researched in sensuous…
The “Trotter” open‐air school, Milan (1922–1977): A city of youth or risky business
This article inserts the concept of risk in the context of open‐air schools and investigates its implications, capacities and limits. It is contended that applying at‐risk labels to pupils who attended open‐air schools is itself a risky business. The category to some extent constitutes an anomaly within most open‐air schools’ histories, as much of what it would come to denote, did not yet exist as such when these institutes arose and flourished. …
A critical review of the literature on school dropout
Mobilising meaning: Multimodality, translocation, technology and heritage
2007 the Maurits De Vroede Prize by the British and Dutch History of Education Society, respectively.His interests are in the social-cultural history of education with a
Puppets on a string in a theatre of display? Interactions of image, text, material, space and motion in The Family of Man (ca. 1950s–1960s)
In the past few decades, increasing attention has been devoted within various disciplines to aspects previously considered trivial, among which are images, material objects and spaces. While the visual, the material and the spatial are receiving ever more consideration and the myriad issues surrounding them are being tackled, their convergence in educational settings across time and space has thus far remained underexplored. A travelling photo ex…
The stranger within: Luxembourg’s early school system as a European prototype of nationally legitimized international blends (ca. 1794–1844)
This comparative analysis of Luxembourg's early school (law) system reveals the extent to which European school systems reflect "national-cultural idiosyncrasies" apart from "structural isomorphism". It first examines the legal soil into which the Luxembourg school system was implanted. Legislative pendular swings, reflecting shifts in power relations, cultural–linguistic affinities and so on, determined the direction in which the school system w…
Essor et déclin d'une école de plein air: Le Centre Dupré de Roubaix (vers 1921-1978)
À ce jour des spécialistes ont toujours tendance à souligner l'approche holistique, innovante et centrée sur l'enfant des écoles de plein air. Une hypothèse tacite liée à cette idée consiste en ce que les promoteurs des écoles de plein air furent à l'origine d'un véritable « mouvement », qui a évolué naturellement et apporté des « progrès » en matière d'éducation, d'architecture, etc. Ayant établi que cela n'est pas conforme aux données historiqu…
Differences That Might Matter?: A Manifesto Diffractively Read
Differences That Might Matter? A Manifesto Diffractively Read
To write a manifesto is to expose oneself — to make oneself vulnerable to critique. In the case of a co-authored piece, it is also to show oneself to one’s co-writers (colleagues and perhaps friends). Yet, such vulnerability, which is moreover a vulner-ability to one’s self, forces one to take a close look in the mir-ror, and this includes those who are invited to deliver a reply as well. I find myself in that fortunate position. It is indeed wit…
Boundlessly entangled: Non-/Human Performances of Education for Health Through Open-Air Schools
This article starts from histoire croisée to develop a genuinely relational analysis of performances of health education in the context of open-air schools. It interrogates, through places, people, and things conceived of as being performatively entangled, the notion of an internationalisation of school hygiene. These places, people, and things - "international" conferences and exhibitions, "figureheads" of the aspiring New Schools and open-air s…
Odorous childhoods and scented worlds of learning: A sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives in Western Europe (1900s-1960s)
This paper develops a sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives which featured (non-)formal schooling, analyzing these as belonging to (a) scent(ed) and more generally sense(d) world(s) of learning. Working with photographs as sensory objects of affect, and using as examples Belgian and Luxembourg open-air schools and associated sanitary and social welfare provisions, the paper explores issues so far under-researched in sensuous…
Learning to make sense: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory Education and Embodied Enculturation
In this introductory essay we examine through a ‘temporally inflected lens’ some of the complex entanglements of learning, senses, and sense making; body-sensory experience and practice; and culture and society. We thereby aim to bring into dialogue inter-/multisensorial approaches to education as a project and praxis and processes of ‘enculturation’, which have always, in one way or the other, involved ‘embodied’ learning (and imaginaries thereo…
Cutting knots ‘together–apart’: Threads of Western and Southern European history of education research
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…
Arte urbano y costero y reconfiguración corpórea de la educación: Un análisis entre sí de «StreetWise» y «One Ocean–Ocean Portrait» como casos de narración artística colaborativa
En este artículo, analizamos entre sí de dos casos glocales de investigación artivista colaborativa (StreetWise y One Ocean–Ocean Portrait), explorando las posibilidades que ofrecen para la historia de la educación figuraba como «reconfiguración corpórea» (Barad), o «recuerdo» a través de «narración» (Ingold) en términos de una búsqueda y realización de conocimiento comprometida y situada. Ambos casos representan proyectos activistas basados en l…
Imagining trans past yet to come: A reparative essay in the aid of decolonising historiography of education
As nonbinary trans and cis gay scholars, respectively, we queer the potential of a history of education committed to recovering trans, gender-nonconforming, and queer existences erased by Western colonial violence. Drawing on the case of António Custódio das Neves (1858–1888), born in Portugal and assigned female at birth but growing up male and called the “Woman Man” or “Man Woman”, we confront colonialist erasure of such existences. Through “cr…
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