Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ruyskensvelde |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RUYSKENSVELDE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5856-1885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy
Amid a future-focused present, education reforms are increasingly framed as responses to uncertainty and change. The proliferation of anticipatory governance in education policies, that not only seek to forecast what might happen but also aim to actively shape anticipated futures, raises questions about their ‘politics of temporality’. This paper critically investigates how past, present and future time are ‘used’ in two recent future-oriented po…
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950
This paper explores the interplay between citizenship education and the promotion of national consciousness in Belgium’s teacher training institutions from 1918 to 1950, with particular attention to the aftermaths of the First and Second World Wars. Analyzing archival materials from two Flemish teacher training colleges—the Episcopal Normal School Saint-Joseph in Torhout and the State Normal School in Lier—this study investigates how post-war edu…
Marieke Smulders, Voor het hogere bestemd. De vorming van een katholieke elite aan drie Nijmeegse jongensinternaten, 1920-1970
status: Published
From idealism to efficiency
This paper examines how the tension between John Dewey’s pedagogical progressivism and Edward Thorndike’s administrative progressivism was reconfigured in early Republican China through the selective adaptation of Herman H. Horne’s The Psychological Principles of Education (1906) by Chinese schoolteacher Shu Xincheng (1893–1960). By analysing his translation of Horne’s book in Chinese, Practical Pedagogy Based on Psychological Principles (1920/19…
Education in the shadows private tutoring in Soviet Latvia through the lens of autobiographical writing, 1945–1991
status: Published online
Global History in China. An introduction
status: Published online
A rising tide of discontent
Mediocrity as a concept in education has frequently been used by modern-day and historical actors to express discontent with the status quo of pedagogy and schooling. Despite its pervasiveness in discourse, however, the concept has largely evaded academic scrutiny, particularly in terms of its historical development in the years leading up to its appearance in the famous United States Government report, A Nation at Risk. This paper aims to constr…
Educating the Volksgemeinschaft
status: Published
Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scientific expertise in Belgium's youth delinquency policy. The child at risk was subjected to a series of observations, resulting in an observation report ('waarnemingsverslag') that contained the psychological, moral and physical characteristics of the delinquent child, and suggested strategies for its re-education. This article focuses foremost on t…
Vlaamsche Paedagogiek
In May 1941, two progressive educationalists, Jozef Emiel Verheyen and Leo Roels, published a new pedagogical journal, Vlaamsche Paedagogiek (Flemish Pedagogy, 1941–1944). The journal aimed to contribute to the development and proliferation of a pedagogy that rooted in the Flemish soil and national character. Verheyen and Roels were convinced that “strong personalities could only prosper in a natural (volkseigen) atmosphere, carried by [the Flemi…
Let us entertain you
Following recent studies that have mapped history of education research practices, this article aims to map contemporary history of education teaching practices. Drawing on data from interviews with history of education university lecturers and a global digital survey, we explore the rationale behind teaching practices and teaching beliefs in history of education. The starting point for our interest was a shared “sense of unease”: we had the impr…
The cult of order
An analysis of the history of primary education in Belgium by Depaepe et al. in 2000 has demonstrated how the idea of “order” structured classroom reality in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This “order” is not only visible in the internal organisation of schooling (e.g. division into year classes, a structured timetable, the use of the didactics of teacher-centred instruction), but also in the design of the curriculum. Good …
Education in Turmoil
This article is concerned with the ideological battle between National Socialist and democratic educational authorities in Belgium during the Second World War, and the ways in which the German occupation reverberated after the liberation in debates about educational reforms. Wartime education under German occupation reveals an important element in the relation between war and the larger society and considers the function and use of education as a…
Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education
In the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have remarked, in danger? This article starts from the idea that our field of study is definitely not alone in its struggle: many branches of the humanities ha…
Remembering wartime schooling… Catholic education, teacher memory and World War II in Belgium
Power over education and the upcoming generations has always been an important instrument in shaping religious and secular values. As a consequence, control over schools, pupils and teachers was, particularly in periods of war, an important means for bringing about acceptance of the new regime. The aim of this paper is to discuss priest-teachers’ wartime memories of German interference in Belgian education during Second World War, on the basis of…
Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education
In the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have remarked, in danger? This article starts from the idea that our field of study is definitely not alone in its struggle: many branches of the humanities ha…
Educating the Volksgemeinschaft
status: Published
Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scientific expertise in Belgium's youth delinquency policy. The child at risk was subjected to a series of observations, resulting in an observation report ('waarnemingsverslag') that contained the psychological, moral and physical characteristics of the delinquent child, and suggested strategies for its re-education. This article focuses foremost on t…
Vlaamsche Paedagogiek
In May 1941, two progressive educationalists, Jozef Emiel Verheyen and Leo Roels, published a new pedagogical journal, Vlaamsche Paedagogiek (Flemish Pedagogy, 1941–1944). The journal aimed to contribute to the development and proliferation of a pedagogy that rooted in the Flemish soil and national character. Verheyen and Roels were convinced that “strong personalities could only prosper in a natural (volkseigen) atmosphere, carried by [the Flemi…
The cult of order
An analysis of the history of primary education in Belgium by Depaepe et al. in 2000 has demonstrated how the idea of “order” structured classroom reality in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This “order” is not only visible in the internal organisation of schooling (e.g. division into year classes, a structured timetable, the use of the didactics of teacher-centred instruction), but also in the design of the curriculum. Good …
Remembering wartime schooling… Catholic education, teacher memory and World War II in Belgium
Power over education and the upcoming generations has always been an important instrument in shaping religious and secular values. As a consequence, control over schools, pupils and teachers was, particularly in periods of war, an important means for bringing about acceptance of the new regime. The aim of this paper is to discuss priest-teachers’ wartime memories of German interference in Belgian education during Second World War, on the basis of…
Education in Turmoil
This article is concerned with the ideological battle between National Socialist and democratic educational authorities in Belgium during the Second World War, and the ways in which the German occupation reverberated after the liberation in debates about educational reforms. Wartime education under German occupation reveals an important element in the relation between war and the larger society and considers the function and use of education as a…
Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education
In the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have remarked, in danger? This article starts from the idea that our field of study is definitely not alone in its struggle: many branches of the humanities ha…
The cult of order
An analysis of the history of primary education in Belgium by Depaepe et al. in 2000 has demonstrated how the idea of “order” structured classroom reality in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This “order” is not only visible in the internal organisation of schooling (e.g. division into year classes, a structured timetable, the use of the didactics of teacher-centred instruction), but also in the design of the curriculum. Good …
Let us entertain you
Following recent studies that have mapped history of education research practices, this article aims to map contemporary history of education teaching practices. Drawing on data from interviews with history of education university lecturers and a global digital survey, we explore the rationale behind teaching practices and teaching beliefs in history of education. The starting point for our interest was a shared “sense of unease”: we had the impr…
Vlaamsche Paedagogiek
In May 1941, two progressive educationalists, Jozef Emiel Verheyen and Leo Roels, published a new pedagogical journal, Vlaamsche Paedagogiek (Flemish Pedagogy, 1941–1944). The journal aimed to contribute to the development and proliferation of a pedagogy that rooted in the Flemish soil and national character. Verheyen and Roels were convinced that “strong personalities could only prosper in a natural (volkseigen) atmosphere, carried by [the Flemi…
Educating the Volksgemeinschaft
status: Published
Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scientific expertise in Belgium's youth delinquency policy. The child at risk was subjected to a series of observations, resulting in an observation report ('waarnemingsverslag') that contained the psychological, moral and physical characteristics of the delinquent child, and suggested strategies for its re-education. This article focuses foremost on t…
A rising tide of discontent
Mediocrity as a concept in education has frequently been used by modern-day and historical actors to express discontent with the status quo of pedagogy and schooling. Despite its pervasiveness in discourse, however, the concept has largely evaded academic scrutiny, particularly in terms of its historical development in the years leading up to its appearance in the famous United States Government report, A Nation at Risk. This paper aims to constr…
Global History in China. An introduction
status: Published online
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy
Amid a future-focused present, education reforms are increasingly framed as responses to uncertainty and change. The proliferation of anticipatory governance in education policies, that not only seek to forecast what might happen but also aim to actively shape anticipated futures, raises questions about their ‘politics of temporality’. This paper critically investigates how past, present and future time are ‘used’ in two recent future-oriented po…
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950
This paper explores the interplay between citizenship education and the promotion of national consciousness in Belgium’s teacher training institutions from 1918 to 1950, with particular attention to the aftermaths of the First and Second World Wars. Analyzing archival materials from two Flemish teacher training colleges—the Episcopal Normal School Saint-Joseph in Torhout and the State Normal School in Lier—this study investigates how post-war edu…
Marieke Smulders, Voor het hogere bestemd. De vorming van een katholieke elite aan drie Nijmeegse jongensinternaten, 1920-1970
status: Published
From idealism to efficiency
This paper examines how the tension between John Dewey’s pedagogical progressivism and Edward Thorndike’s administrative progressivism was reconfigured in early Republican China through the selective adaptation of Herman H. Horne’s The Psychological Principles of Education (1906) by Chinese schoolteacher Shu Xincheng (1893–1960). By analysing his translation of Horne’s book in Chinese, Practical Pedagogy Based on Psychological Principles (1920/19…
Education in the shadows private tutoring in Soviet Latvia through the lens of autobiographical writing, 1945–1991
status: Published online
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works)