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Anne is professor of education at Kassel University. She holds an M.A. in education and a PhD in history on the subject of university reforms in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. Her work focuses on Modern Europe and North America, and integrates history with the theory of education. Her work includes, among other things, the profound transformation of educational policy in the western states during the Cold War and the disciplinary history of educational science – especially during the Nazi era. Anne is also interested in the epistemological gains of techno-feminist perspectives and science and technology studies for historical education research. In addition, she is a passionate mountaineer, climber and biker.
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Anniina is an Associate Professor (tenure track) in philosophy of education at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her main fields of research include democracy, democratic education, and social justice in education. In her recent research, she has especially focused on philosophical issues of democratic education in relation to the current challenges of democratic societies, such as political polarization, growing social and educational inequalities, and the status of minority and marginalised groups. She currently leads two research projects on democratic education, one focusing on the relationship between democratic education and political polarization (funded by the Kone foundation), and the other on the potential of democratic education to improve the social and political status of young immigrants in Finland (funded by the University of Oulu). mail

Barbara is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. Her research, teaching, and publications combine approaches from histories of science, technology, media and education. She is currently investigating how the computer changed physical research and is also preparing a book that shows how high levels of government funding of the nuclear technosciences during the Cold War changed the demand for knowledge and how access to this knowledge became a powerful tool in national politics and international relations.
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Chelsea is a doctoral candidate in the theory and history of education at the University of Groningen, and is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Applied History of Education (Sweden). Before earning her M.Sc. in educational studies at KU Leuven, she taught high school history and psychology in the United States. Her research investigates the history of postwar education news coverage, particularly how the New York Times newspaper acted as a producer of knowledge about education for the American public. Her other research interests include educational reform, LGBTQ+ history, and the role of education in society. In her free time, Chelsea enjoys playing sports, losing at board games, and going on adventures with her wife.
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Christian is Professor of Social Work with a focus on child and youth welfare at HSAP Berlin and guest researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Christian has a professional background in youth and community work. His research interests cover the field of comparative, international and intercultural education as well as social work and education policy studies. He holds a PhD in education from TU Dortmund University and is currently writing on the implementation of new management tools in local education governance.
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Cristina is a postdoc researcher and lecturer at the Department of Education of the University of Vienna. She holds an M.A. in Social Sciences of the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO), Argentina and a PhD in education from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is interested in education policy, transfer, and reform from a global, comparative and historical perspective. She explores how certain ideas, technologies, and agendas travel, are assembled, and resisted in different contexts. Her research focuses currently on college admission testing during the Cold War, privatisation, and right-wing policies, as well as social movements in Latin America. She has a growing interest in politics and transmission of memory on dictatorships and genocide. She is passionate about music, travel and writing novels.
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Douglas is a research fellow in philosophy of education and educational theory at the Technische Universität Dortmund. His research interests include educational ethics, moral and democratic education, teacher education and the history of educational thought. He is currently working on a book that develops a comprehensive approach to transformative education. He is also an enthusiastic bread baker, hiker and father.
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Gnebora is a Doctorate holder in the History of Education on the theme of reducing inequalities in primary education in the Far North of Cameroon between 1918 and 2000. He teaches history at the University of Douala in Cameroon. His main research interests include educational policies, training, the knowledge circulation, relationships to school and social, political and economic transformations. He is currently writing a book on school cinematography. He enjoys reading and is a father.
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Jasmin is a researcher and PhD candidate in the field of history of education at Kassel University. Before, she worked as a high school teacher for both English and French. Her research focuses on the history of environmental education and education for sustainability in Germany. She is also interested in how educational science creates and tells its disciplinary history, and how marginalized voices are remembered in history. Among other things, she is passionate about linguistics and language acquisition, Gothic and Science Fiction and the French cuisine.

Johannes is professor of philosophy of education and educational theory at TU Dortmund and guest professor at Free University of Amsterdam. His research interests include philosophy of education/educational theory, philosophy of childhood, and political and moral philosophy. He is currently writing a book on democratic education in times of war. Apart from this, he is a passionate father of two children, and enjoys reading and travelling the globe. mail

Kazuya is doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University. His primary research interests are in the fields of philosophy of education and political philosophy. His doctoral thesis endeavours to reconstruct Wilhelm von Humboldt’s liberal educational ideas within the context of Anglophone political philosophy. He also engages in philosophical investigations into higher education, aiming to reconstruct the liberal education tradition while championing the fundamental aims of higher education. mail

Michael is professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam. His comparative research interests cover a wide variety of topics, each of them broadly related to the theme of educational justice. In his free time, he enjoys city exploration and rural hiking in equal measure.
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Moritz is a researcher and lecturer at the TU Dort­mund University in Germany. His current research investigates educational governance reform, assessment policy and practice, in particular the enactment of school inspection procedures.
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Nele is assistant professor of philosophy of education at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Her research interests include educational theory, educational ethics, qualitative research and research on recognition and subjectification. With the aim of identifying forms of mediated (in)tolerance, she is currently working on the question of how educators are sensitized to difference and discrimination in professional trainings. In her free time, Nele enjoys playing soccer, hiking and singing with her little daughter.
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Nina is a professor of education and upbringing in childhood at the Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education and Pedagogy in Early Childhood at TU Dortmund university. Her main fields of interest are early childhood education and care, educational inequalities and educational justice, as well as educational governance and funding. Her current research projects focus on the extent of segregation in daycare and its consequences for children’s development, as well as its embeddedness in market structures and social theory more generally.
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Michael is director of the Centre for Education and Digital Transformation at the Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland. After finishing his PhD in the history of education, he first worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Vocational Education and Training in Zurich and then became head of the Education and Work Research Unit, University of Zurich.
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