Emotions and Emotionality. Feelings in Education

Scholars who are concerned with the significance of emotions for education in the pre-modern period up to ca. the middle of the 19th century are invited to participate in the Conference of the Working Group on Pre-modern History of Education (AVE), which will take place at the University of Education Karlsruhe from 6 to 7 October 2023.

Programme

Papers on the following aspects in particular are eligible:

▪ Conceptualisation of emotions in pedagogical discourse
▪ Instructions and rules for dealing with emotions in general and the regulation of emotionality in children and adolescents in particular
▪ Emotionality and physicality in educational literature
▪ Emotions and criminal practices
▪ Emotions in instruction, teaching, family education, and socialisation in particular social contexts
▪ Emotions and emotionality in images of women and men
▪ Self-techniques of emotionality (for instance practicing emotionality, correspondence, autobiographies or diaries)
▪ Emotions and emotionality in images of men and/or women
▪ Representation of emotions and practices of emotionality in theatre and pedagogical play
▪ Emotions and emotionality in the pedagogical handling of non-human nature and the transcendental world
▪ Emotions and emotionality in dealing with “the other”

A publication of selected contributions is planned.