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Barbara Schulte, M.A.
Sonderforschungsbereich 640 (SFB 640) – TP C2
Sitz: Mohrenstr. 40/41 Raum 116
Tel.: +49 30 / 2093-4819
Fax: +49 30 / 2093-4893
barbara.schulte@rz.hu-berlin.de
www.vew.hu-berlin.de/
Subproject C2 "A comparison of vocational interpretation models and training structures. Studies focussing on Latin America (Argentina) and East Asia (China)"
Education and Professional Work Experience
- April 2005 – Research Fellow in the project A comparison of vocational interpretation models and training structures. Studies focussing on Latin America (Argentina) and East Asia (China) (C2)
- 2003 – PhD in Comparative Education on Vocational Education and Chinese Elites in Republican China (1912-1927) (working title) at Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2002 UNESCO expertise on the German school system
- 2000 – 2005 Assistant Lecturer at the Centre of Comparative Education, Humboldt-University, Berlin, with research focus on East Asia and China
- 1994 – 1996 Sinology at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing University, and Nanjing Institute of Education, PR China
- 1992 – 2000 MA in Sinology, German Studies, English Studies, and Education at the University of Cologne and Humboldt University, Berlin
Academic Awards
- 1994 – 1999 scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation
- 1994 – 1996 scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service
- 1995 Prize for Excellent Studies at the Nanjing Normal University, PR China
- 2001 funding by the German Research Foundation (World Congress of Comparative Education in South Korea)
- 2003 – 2004 scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service
- 2004 CESE Women’s Prize for the best contribution to the 2002 CESE Congress in London
- 2006 EU-funded scholarship for the 2006 Postgraduate Research Summer School in Nanjing, China (in collaboration with the Worldwide University Network)
Publications
- 2006 - "Variationen des Anderen: Die Wahrnehmung ausländischer Bildungsmodelle in der argentinischen und chinesischen Modernisierungsdebatte." In cooperation with Verónica Oelsner. In: Transfer lokalisiert: Konzepte, Akteure, Kontexte (= COMPARATIV. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (forthcoming).
- 2006 - "«Für den Fortschritt der Menschheit»: Die chinesische Kulturlinguistik erfindet sich selbst." In: Lackner, Michael et al. (ed.), Die Allgegenwart von Selbstbehauptungsdiskursen in Ostasien (working title), München: Iudicum (forthcoming).
- 2006 - "Wenn Wissen auf Reisen geht: Rezeption und Aneignung westlichen Wissens in China." In: Schriewer, Jürgen (ed.), Weltkultur und kulturelle Bedeutungswelten: Zur Globalisierung von Bildungsdiskursen, vol. 2 in the SFB series Eigene und fremde Welten. Repräsentation sozialer Ordnungen im Vergleich, Frankfurt am Main: Campus (forthcoming).
- 2005 - Los sistemas educativos europeos. ¿Crisis o transformación? Ed. by Joaquim Prats and Francesc Raventós, together with R. Cowen, B.P.M. Creemers, P.-L. Gauthier, B. Maes, B. Schulte and R. Standaert. Colección Estudios Sociales, No. 18. Barcelona: Fundación "la Caixa".
- 2005 - Review of Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs: Zwischen partei-staatlicher Selbstinszenierung und kirchlichen Gegenwelten/ Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies: Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures (ed. by Gábor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf and Jan C. Behrends. Komparatistische Bibliothek, vol. 11. Frankfurt am Main, 2003); in Comparative Education 41 (4) (November), pp. 508-510; and in Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung 15 (3), pp. 138-140.
- 2004 - "Teaching Subjects and Time Allocation in the German School System (Berlin)." In: Prospects – Quarterly Review of Comparative Education 34, 3 (September), pp. 335-351.
- 2004 - "Chinese Cultural Linguistics: An Academic Discipline with Chinese Characteristics? (Bunka gengogaku no chûgokuteki tokushitsu e no toikage)" In: Yasuo Imai and Zhu Haodong (eds), The Formation of People and Curriculum in Internationalised Society (Kokusaika jidai no kyôiku kadai to ningen keisei). Tokyo: Sanichi Shobô, pp. 173-201.
- 2004 - "East is East and West is West? Chinese Academia Goes Global." In: Schriewer, Jürgen (ed.), Transnational Intellectual Networks. Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, pp. 307-329.
- 2004 - Review of Full Circle. A Life with Hong Kong and China (Ruth Hayhoe, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, 2004); in: Compare 34 (4) (December), S. 488-90.
- 2003 - "Social Hierarchy and Group Solidarity: The Meanings of Work and Vocation/Profession in the Chinese Context and their Implications for Vocational Education." In: International Review of Education 49, 1 (Special Issue), ed. by Mark Bray. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 213-239.
- 2003 - Review of Knowledge Across Cultures: A Contribution to Dialogue Among Civilizations (ed. by Ruth Hayhoe and Julia Pan, CERC Studies in Comparative Education 11, Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2001); in: International Review of Education 49 (6), pp. 631-35.
Main Focus in the Subproject
Vocational Education and Chinese Elites in Republican China (1912-1927) (working title)
At the current stage, the project sheds light on how Chinese elites between 1912, the founding year of the Republic, and 1927, the end of the warlord period, construed their debate on vocation and vocational education. Employing a historical perspective, it is assumed that modernising societies, when (re-)modelling work environments along vocational categories, draw on certain concepts of work and vocation that, albeit connected to specific demands resulting from the modernisation process, are nonetheless the outflow of culturally and socially embedded collective experiences and semantic traditions. In the Chinese elites' views on vocation, work, and vocational education at the beginning of the 20th century, points of reference were, one the one hand, indigenous resources and traditions, and, on the other, those countries perceived to be specifically successful and 'modern': Japan and the 'West'. The project investigates how, in the course of the Chinese modernisation debate, these views on vocation and work were transformed through a complex interplay with partly traditional, partly modernised and globalised surroundings.
The investigation concentrates on the supporters of modernisation and reform movements, such as originally Confucian-educated scholars as well as modern scientists with international experience (or a mix of both), entrepreneurs, journalists, politicians, and political advisors. Using a specific sample, it focusses on the members of the Chinese Vocational Education Association (Zhonghua Zhiye Jiaoyushe), which was founded by Huang Yanpei in 1917 and which was particularly active (and partly successful) in promoting and researching vocational education. Working with a data base that comprises these members and associated persons, the project will outline and analyse the profile of this group: educational and professional background, geographical range of action, types and places of newly founded institutions, membership in other associations, scope of international experiences, and the relationships and networks between these actors. This profile will then be related to what these people wrote on vocational education in the Journal of Education (Jiaoyu Zazhi), one of the most important educational journals during that period, and in the journal Education and Vocation (Jiaoyu yu Zhiye), the journal published by the Vocational Education Association. The project seeks to show how the actors, as members both of a local organisation and of an increasingly interconnected global educational community, responded to and shaped the modernisation processes in China; how they mediated between the local public and the global academic arena; and how they eventually transformed and appropriated foreign ideas and designs within the Chinese context (as it was perceived by them). Thus, the project aims to make a contribution to historical research on how globalisation processes were reflected and shaped at the local level, within a specific community.
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