Schulhausbau in Zürich von 1860 bis 1920 - zwischen Expertenherrschaft und öffentlicher Kontrolle

What is it about?

The chapter analyses schoolhouses' construction processes identifying them as a community task that varies from community to community as a task in hands of public administration, professional commissions, jointed task of school boards and professionals, or as bureaucratic task. Actors, their self-definitions and their relationship to other groups and organisations are diverse. Thus, the analysed cases show different governance strategies oriented to bureaucracy, professional interests or public service.

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Why is it important?

In Switzerland, schoolhouses are local symbols of a school system controlled by the people, the public sphere. School-building processes show that school governance much more complex is and that this public control is not self-evident. The article analysed sources of different communitiey of the Canton of Zurich on how the communities coordinated the school-building process identifying local characteristics and historical change.