Research project The project studies the emergence of school hygiene as an area of knowledge during the late nineteenth century and its impact on Swedish educational environments.
Lärarhögskolan, Umeå University
The overall purpose of the research is to achieve new knowledge about the emergence of school hygiene and the consequences this had at Swedish educational institutions from the 1850s until the turn of the century 1900. This is done through two separate studies that focus on different dimensions of this development; 1) the regulation of the school as a physical space and risk environment and 2) the discovery and biologicalisation of the student's bodies and inner life.
