Kristina Schierbaum

DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation

Kristina Schierbaum is a research associate at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main. After completing a master's degree in educational science, foreign German studies/German as a foreign and second language and ethnology/cultural history in Jena, she received her doctorate in 2018 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on the life and work of the child researcher Janusz Korczak. Her research interests include historical educational research and childhood research with a focus on remembering and forgetting, Jewish childhood in Poland until 1945, and education at children's homes and orphanages in the former GDR.

Introduction

Children and childhoods

The 20th century brought many changes in the way people experienced and thought about childhood, both in terms of their living environments, life circumstances and educational spaces. Furthermore, it was a period that produced a wide range of scientific findings in the context of differentiating...