• The heterogeneity, coherence and direction of the field of historical inquiry in education;
• The radical shifts in the structures, discourses and sites of education in the late 20thC /early 21st C and the projection into new spaces and purposes of learning [cross national governance, virtual learning, commercial education services, lifelong learning];
• A desire to seek collaboration with other disciplines or specialist areas of study.

The DOMUS group of academics meet regularly in seminars and business meetings, publish and present together [as independent scholars and as group representatives], organize journal editing and network convening, make national and international project applications.

The Centre is committed to inter-disciplinary enquiries which challenge and explore boundaries of knowledge and ways of seeing. It engages with exploratory methodologies and the generation of projects across institutional/ disciplinary boundaries: for example, on material artefacts as sources, on the use of images, on critical life history, and discursive analysis.

The Centre has strong links with significant historians of education in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia and meets regularly inside networks; it has been a key agent in constructing.

The Centre while international in focus works with local organisations involved in the preservation, collection and dissemination of materials relating to educational histories and the histories of childhood.

Contact

Ian Grosvenor
School of Education
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK

Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4828
Email: I.D.Grosvenor@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ruth Watts
School of Education
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK

Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4826
Email: R.E.WATTS@bham.ac.uk