Dr. Frederik Herman

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Frederik Herman ist seit Juli 2025 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt «Equipping Schools: The Role of Finance in Shaping Switzerland’s Educational Media Landscapes, 1950–2010» unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Michael Geiss. Er wurde 2010 an der Universität Leuven mit einer Arbeit zur Schulkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts promoviert. Von 2013 bis 2018 war er Postdoktorand im FAMOSO-Projekt an der Universität Luxemburg. Seit 2018 ist er Dozent an der Pädagogischen Hochschule der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (PH FHNW). Zu seinen früheren beruflichen Stationen zählen Lehr- und Koordinationstätigkeiten im Bereich der Lehrerbildung in Belgien.

Schwerpunkte in Forschung, Lehre, Dienstleistungen

Er befasst sich in seiner Forschung mit den visuellen, materiellen, räumlichen und kulturellen Dimensionen von Bildung. Frederik Herman publizierte zu Themen wie materieller Schulkultur (zum Beispiel Schulgebäude, Schulmöbel, Lernmaterialien), pädagogischem Denken, Schulpraxis, Bildungsreform, Psychophysiologie, Berufsberatung, kulturellem Lernen, Identitätsbildung, Nationenbildung und Public History. Beiträge erschienen unter anderem in Oxford Review of Education, Paedagogica Historica, History of Education und Zeitschrift für Pädagogik. In den letzten Jahren war er (Mit-)Herausgeber mehrerer Sonderhefte und Sammelbände, darunter Bodies and Minds in Education (2019), Cultivating Children and Youth (2020), Fabricating Modern Societies (2019), Folds of Past, Present and Future (2021) sowie Exhibiting the Past (2022).

Publikationen

  • Herman, F., Braster, S. & del Mar del Pozo Andrés, M. (2023)Exhibiting the Past: Public Histories of Education. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenburg.

  • Van Ruyskensvelde, S., Thyssen, G., Herman, F., Van Gorp, A. & Verstraete, P. (2021)Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenburg.

  • Grosvenor, I., Herman, F. & Roberts, S. (2020)Cultivating children and youth: Transnational explorations of the urban and the natural. Special issue – History of Education, 49(4).

  • Herman, F. & Hofmann, M. (2019)Bodies and minds in education. Special issue – History of Education, 48(4).

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2019)Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel. Leiden, Niederlande: Brill.

  • Herman, F. & Roberts, S. (2017)Adventures in cultural learning. Special issue – Paedagogica Historica, 53(3).

  • Herman, F. (2010)School culture in the 20th century: Mentality and reality history of the primary school. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven.

  • Herman, F. & Tondeur, J. (2021)Untangling the sociomateriality of the classroom: Biographies of school spaces (c. 1960–2014). Oxford Review of Education, 47(5), 681–695.

  • Grosvenor, I., Herman, F. & Roberts, S. (2020)Editorial: Cultivating children and youth: Transnational explorations of the urban and the natural. History of Education, 49(4), 435–439.

  • Herman, F. & Priem, K. (2020)Images of industrial life and vocational training: Scouting as a liminal space for educating a workers’ elite in 1920s Luxembourg. History of Education, 49(4), 553–570.

  • Herman, F. & Hoffman, M. (2019)Bodies and minds in education. History of Education, 48(4), 443–451.

  • Thyssen, G. & Herman, F. (2019)Re-turning matters of body_mind: Articulations of ill-/health and energy/fatigue gathered through vocational and health education. History of Education, 48(4), 496–515.

  • Herman, F. & Plein, I. (2017)Envisioning the industrial present: Pathways of cultural learning in Luxembourg (1880s–1920s). Paedagogica Historica, 53(3), 268–284.

  • Herman, F. & Roberts, S. (2017)Adventures in cultural learning. Paedagogica Historica, 53(3), 189–198.

  • Tondeur, J., Herman, F., De Buck, M. & Triquet, K. (2017)Unraveling entangled spaces and practices: Teachers’ views on the evolving material classroom (c. 1960–2015). European Journal of Education, 52, 280–294.

  • Herman, F., Priem, K. & Thyssen, G. (2016)Body_machine? Encounters of the human and the mechanical in education, industry and science. History of Education, 46(1), 108–127.

  • Verstraete, P. & Herman, F. (2016)Un alegato a favor de lo compartido: historia de la discapacidad, discursos de rehabilitación, y el individuo/A plea for commonality: Disability history, discourses of rehabilitation, and the individual. Asclepio – Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 68(2), 147–161.

  • Herman, F., Priem, K. & Thyssen, G. (2015)Körper_Maschinen? Die Verschmelzung von Mensch und Technik in Pädagogik, Industrie und Wissenschaft. Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung, 20, 47–75.

  • Herman, F. (2014)Forging harmony in the social organism: Industry and the power of psychometric techniques. History of Education, 43(5), 592–614.

  • Depaepe, M., Simon, F., Herman, F. & Van Gorp, A. (2012)Brodskys hygienische Klappschulbank: Zu leicht für die schulische Mentalität? Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 58, 50–65.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Simon, F. & Depaepe, M. (2011)The school desk: From concept to object. History of Education, 40(1), 97–117.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Simon, F. & Depaepe, M. (2011)Auf den Spuren von Diskurs, Traum und Wirklichkeit der architektonischen Formgebung in Decrolys Ermitage. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 57(6), 928–951.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Simon, F., Vanobbergen, B. & Depaepe, M. (2011)Modern architecture meets new education. Renaat Braem’s design and the Brussels Decrolyschool (1946). Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Journal of Belgian History, XLI(1–2), 135–166.

  • Thyssen, G., Kusters, W., Herman, F., Van Ruyskensvelde, S. & Depaepe, M. (2010)From popular to unpopular education? The open-air school(s) of «Pont-Rouge», Roubaix (1921–1978). History of Education & Children’s Literature, 5(2), 199–227.

  • Depaepe, M., Herman, F., Simon, F., Surmont, M. & Van Gorp, A. (2008)«Ethnohistory» of the primary school in Flanders: A step towards the theoretical understanding of the structural and cultural processes, behind schooling and educationalising. Filosofiia obrazovaniia/Philosophy of education, 1, 122–135.

  • Herman, F., Surmont, M., Depaepe, M., Simon, F. & Van Gorp, A. (2008)Remembering the schoolmaster’s blood-red pen. The story of the exercise books and the story of the children of the time (1950–1970). History of Education & Children’s Literature, 3(2), 351–375.

  • Vinck, H., Briffaerts, J., Herman, F. & Depaepe, M. (2006)Expériences scolaires au Congo Belge. Etude explorative. Annales Aequatoria, 27, 5–103.

  • Herman, F., Braster, S. & del Mar del Pozo Andrés, M. (2022)Towards a Public History of Education: A Manifesto. In: F. Herman, S. Braster, & M. del Mar del Pozo Andrés (eds.) Exhibiting the past: Public histories of education (pp. 1–35). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

  • Van Gorp, A. & Herman, F. (2022)On the trail of the toucan: A travelogue about a peregrination in educational history. In: F. Herman, S. Braster, & M. del Mar del Pozo Andrés (eds.) Exhibiting the past: Public histories of education (pp. 357–379). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

  • Herman, F. (2021)Teenage apprentices at risk: Corporate imaginings of polyharmony (Luxembourg, c. 1910–1940). In: G. Gómez, X. Comas, & K. Priem (eds.) Appearances: Studies in visual research (pp. 69–89). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2021)Humanitarian photography beyond the picture: David «CHIM» Seymour’s Children of Europe. In: T. Allender, I. Dussel, I. Grosvenor &, K. Priem (eds.) The visual in educational history: Transnational reflections on the practice of history in the digital age (pp. 181–206). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

  • Herman, F. (2020)Das harmonische Leben im industriellen Kosmos: Darstellungen zukünftiger Arbeiter in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Luxemburg. In: L. Boser et al. (eds.), Pädagogisierung des «guten Lebens» (pp. 325–355). Bern: Bibliothek am Guisanplatz.

  • Herman, F. (2019)Iconography and materiality. In: T. Fitzgerald (ed.), International handbook of historical studies in education: Debates, tensions and directions (pp. 329–347). Singapore: Springer.

  • Herman, F. & Priem, K. (2019)The eye of the machine: Labor sciences and the mechanical registration of the human body. In: K. Priem & F. Herman (eds.), Fabricating modern societies: Education, bodies and minds in the Age of Steel (pp. 138–66). Leiden: Brill.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2019)«Sensuous geographies» in the «Age of Steel»: Educating future workers’ bodies in time and space (1900–1940). In: K. Priem & F. Herman (eds.), Fabricating modern societies: Education, bodies and minds in the Age of Steel (pp. 111–137). Leiden: Brill.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2019)Introduction. In: K. Priem & F. Herman (eds.), Fabricating modern societies: Education, bodies and minds in the Age of Steel (pp. 1–32). Leiden: Brill.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2017)Hautnah: Materialität der Moderne und sensomotorische Ansätze der Berufsbildung im «Zeitalter des Stahles». In: C. Thompson, R. Casale & N. Ricken (eds.), Die Sache(n) der Bildung (pp. 213–239). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Simon, F., Vanobbergen, B. & Depaepe, M. (2012)Modern architecture meets new education: Renaat Braem’s design and the Brussels Decrolyschool (1946). In: M. Depaepe (ed.), Between Educationalization and Appropriation – Selected Writings on the History of Modern Educational Systems (pp. 331–358). Leuven: Leuven University Press.

  • Depaepe, M., Herman, F., Van Gorp, A. & Simon, F. (2011)Over pedagogisering gesproken … vanuit het perspectief van de pedagogische historiografie. In: A. Van Gorp, P. Dhondt, F. Simon & M. Depaepe M. (eds.), Pedagogische historiografie: Een socioculturele lezing van de geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs (pp. 63–76). Leuven and The Hague: Acco.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Simon, F. & Depaepe, M. (2011)The organic growth of the Decroly School in Brussels: From villa to school, from living room to classroom. In: S. Braster, I. Grosvenor & M. del Mar del Pozo Andres (eds.), The black box of schooling: A cultural history of the classroom (pp. 241–259). Brussels: Peter Lang.

  • Herman, F., Surmont, M., Depaepe, M. & Van Gorp, A. (2010)Remembering the schoolmaster’s blood-red pen: The story of the exercise books and the story of «the children of the time» (1950–1970). In: J. Meda, D. Montino & R. Sani (eds.), School exercise books: A complex source for a history of the approach to schooling and education in the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 1401–1418). Florence: Edizioni Polistampa.

  • Depaepe, M., Herman, F., Surmont, M., Van Gorp, A. & Simon, F. (2009)About pedagogization: From the perspective of the history of education. In: P. Smeyers & M. Depaepe (eds.), Educational Research: the Educationalization of Social Problems (pp. 13–30). Dordrecht: Springer.

  • Depaepe, M., Vinck,H. & Herman, F. (2009)Van wildemannen, brave zwartjes en geëvolueerden. In: V. Viaene, D. Van Reybrouck & B. Ceuppens (eds.), Congo in België. Koloniale cultuur in de metropool (pp. 131–146). Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven.

  • Herman, F., Van Gorp, A., Surmont, M., Simon, F. & Depaepe, M. (2009)Uit de marge van de onderwijsgeschiedenis: Schoolschriften als lieux de mémoire (1950–1970). In: A. Van Gorp, N. Bakker, S. Braster, M. Rietveld-Van Wingerden (eds.), Materiële schoolcultuur: Over artefacten als bron in de onderwijsgeschiedenis (pp. 85–107). Assen: Van Gorcum.

  • Herman, F., Depaepe, M., Simon, F. & Van Gorp, A. (2007)Punishment as an educational technology: A form of pedagogical inertia in schools. In: P. Smeyers & M. Depaepe (eds.), Educational Research: Networks and Technologies (pp. 203–219). Dordrecht: Springer.

  • Herman, F. (2022)Rezension zu: Hoffmann-Ocon, Andreas; De Vincenti, Andrea; Grube, Norbert (eds.): Praxeologie in der Historischen Bildungsforschung. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines Forschungsansatzes. Bielefeld 2020: ISBN 978-3-8376-5374-8. In: H-Soz-Kult, April 12, 2022.

  • Herman, F. (2019)A rewarding read. Review of Annette Caroline Cremer/Martin Muslow (ed.). Objekte als Quellen der historischen Kulturwissenschaften. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2017. In: International Journal for the Historiography of Education, 9(2), 291–294.

  • Herman, F. (2018)Fourteen clocks on the wall – Switzerland. In: G. Thyssen & F. Pruneri (eds.), Looking back going forward: School_time in flux and flow in Europe and beyond (pp. 79–82). n.p.: EERA Network 17 – Histories of Education.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2017)La Fabrication du Luxembourg moderne: Technologies visuelles et industries réformatrices come moteurs de transformation sociétale/Fabricating modern Luxembourg: Visual technologies and industries of reform as engines of societal transformation. In: M. Consémius, F. Poos & K. Priem (eds.), La Forge d’une société moderne. Photographie et communication d’entreprise à l’ère de l’industrialisation (ARBED 1911–1937)/Forging a Modern Society. Photography and Corporate Communication in the Industrial Age (ARBED 1911–1937) (pp. 10–25). Dudelange: Centre national de l’audiovisuel.

  • Priem, K. & Herman, F. (2014)Putting male and female bodies in their places: Arenas and theatres of educational reform. In: C. Burke, I. Grosvenor, B. Haengelli-Jenni, H. Ribiero de Castro, G. Thyssen & P. Verstraete (eds.), Education across Europe from a historical perspective: a photographic conversation (pp. 43–46). n.p.: EERA Network 17 – Histories of Education.

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