Michèle Hofmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5906318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michèle Hofmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michèle |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Education, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9873-8286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ab)normality and (in)educability – whose voices can be found in historical sources on intellectually “abnormal” children
In this article, I focus on a group of people whose voices in archival materials are especially hard, or very unusual, to find. This group comprises intellectually “abnormal” children. Using the example of German-speaking Switzerland and focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, I will show the types of materials produced on the welfare and education efforts concerning intellectually “abnormal” children, and will analyse those that were…
Schülerauslese, schulische Beurteilung und Schülertests 1880 – 1980
Über den schulischen Umgang mit einer „Heterogenität“ der Schüler*innen wird seit einer Reihe von Jahren heftig debattiert. Der vorliegende Band zeigt, wie seit dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts die Beobachtung von Unterschieden – solchen der Begabung, des Verhaltens und des Interesses – zwischen Schüler*innen in den Schulen mehr und mehr in das Blickfeld rückte. Auseinandersetzungen darüber, wie vor diesem Hintergrund „passende“ Lerngrupp…
Who’s normal and who’s not? Notions of children’s intellectual development in the context of emerging special education at the turn of the twentieth century in Switzerland
The article explores the notions of children’s intellectual ‘ab/normality’ that were conceptualised in the context of emerging special educational measures at the turn of the twentieth century and the concomitant notions of child development. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, the medical classification of ‘idiocy’ provided the framework for the establishment of different educational facilities, including special classes for ‘feebleminded’ …
Swiss Alpine Milk, Education, and the Fabrication of the Ideal Swiss Citizen
Since the 18th century, the Swiss Alps and Swiss alpine life have been idealized,giving rise to the Swiss Alpine myth. In the late 19th century – as a part of theso-called agrarian revolution – dairy farming was transformed into the mainsector of Swiss agriculture. Unlike in other countries, in Switzerland milk becameavailable to all social classes and was advertised as the Swiss national drink.Because milk was associated with the idyllic notion …
Introduction
“Stick to a common font like Times New Roman or Ariel [sic!]”.1 1 http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/masters_resume_cover_letters.pdf (accessed August 2, 2019). This advice on how to write
Fraktur or Antiqua in primary schools? The struggle for a unified typeface in German-speaking Switzerland between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
In this paper, we analyse the struggle for a unified style of writing in primary schools in the German-speaking part of Switzerland between the 1860s and the first decades of the twentieth century with regard to the contexts in which this struggle was embedded. In the late-nineteenth century, in German-speaking Switzerland, as in other parts of the German-speaking realm, a controversy emerged regarding whether general writing practices (handwriti…
Ärztliche Macht und ihr Einfluss auf den Schulalltag in der Schweiz im ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert
Inspired by the work of Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, this article assumes that normality is not something given but something that is socially negotiated and hence constructed. Consequently, existing and newly created power constellations must be taken into account when studying normalisation processes. This article inquires after the construction of normality and the associated medical power using the example of school hygiene in Swit…
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Ärztliche Macht und ihr Einfluss auf den Schulalltag in der Schweiz im ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert
Inspired by the work of Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, this article assumes that normality is not something given but something that is socially negotiated and hence constructed. Consequently, existing and newly created power constellations must be taken into account when studying normalisation processes. This article inquires after the construction of normality and the associated medical power using the example of school hygiene in Swit…
Introduction
“Stick to a common font like Times New Roman or Ariel [sic!]”.1 1 http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/masters_resume_cover_letters.pdf (accessed August 2, 2019). This advice on how to write
Fraktur or Antiqua in primary schools? The struggle for a unified typeface in German-speaking Switzerland between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
In this paper, we analyse the struggle for a unified style of writing in primary schools in the German-speaking part of Switzerland between the 1860s and the first decades of the twentieth century with regard to the contexts in which this struggle was embedded. In the late-nineteenth century, in German-speaking Switzerland, as in other parts of the German-speaking realm, a controversy emerged regarding whether general writing practices (handwriti…
Swiss Alpine Milk, Education, and the Fabrication of the Ideal Swiss Citizen
Since the 18th century, the Swiss Alps and Swiss alpine life have been idealized,giving rise to the Swiss Alpine myth. In the late 19th century – as a part of theso-called agrarian revolution – dairy farming was transformed into the mainsector of Swiss agriculture. Unlike in other countries, in Switzerland milk becameavailable to all social classes and was advertised as the Swiss national drink.Because milk was associated with the idyllic notion …
Schülerauslese, schulische Beurteilung und Schülertests 1880 – 1980
Über den schulischen Umgang mit einer „Heterogenität“ der Schüler*innen wird seit einer Reihe von Jahren heftig debattiert. Der vorliegende Band zeigt, wie seit dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts die Beobachtung von Unterschieden – solchen der Begabung, des Verhaltens und des Interesses – zwischen Schüler*innen in den Schulen mehr und mehr in das Blickfeld rückte. Auseinandersetzungen darüber, wie vor diesem Hintergrund „passende“ Lerngrupp…
Who’s normal and who’s not? Notions of children’s intellectual development in the context of emerging special education at the turn of the twentieth century in Switzerland
The article explores the notions of children’s intellectual ‘ab/normality’ that were conceptualised in the context of emerging special educational measures at the turn of the twentieth century and the concomitant notions of child development. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, the medical classification of ‘idiocy’ provided the framework for the establishment of different educational facilities, including special classes for ‘feebleminded’ …
Ab)normality and (in)educability – whose voices can be found in historical sources on intellectually “abnormal” children
In this article, I focus on a group of people whose voices in archival materials are especially hard, or very unusual, to find. This group comprises intellectually “abnormal” children. Using the example of German-speaking Switzerland and focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, I will show the types of materials produced on the welfare and education efforts concerning intellectually “abnormal” children, and will analyse those that were…
Sociology (6 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Normality (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)