Dr. Kristen D. Nawrotzki

Dozentin im Fach Englisch; Leiterin des Selbstlernzentrums für Sprachen der PH Heidelberg; Historikerin in der Bildungsforschung; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin

Lecturer in the Dept. of English, Founding Director of the Center for Independent Language Study, Heidelberg University of Education; Education and social policy researcher; Historian

CURRENT PROJECTS

(2021-2025) Take It Outside: Preparing Teachers for Nature-Based Education with co-investigator Larry Prochner (Alberta, Canada). Funded by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant.

MOST RECENT PROJECTS

(2020-2023) Froebelian Endeavours, New Education and the ‘Researched’ Child from the 1900s to the 1960. with Co-investigators: Larry Prochner (Alberta, Canada), Helen May (Otago, NZ), Alessandra Arce Hai (São Carlos, Brazil), and Yordanka Valkanova (Canterbury, UK). Funded by a grant from the Froebel Trust (UK).

(2021-2022) The MULTILA Project: Multilingual and Multimodal Assessment. Project coordinator for PIs Karin Vogt (PH-Heidelberg) and Bassey Antia (University of the Western Cape).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

Thyssen, G., Nawrotzki, K., Paz, A.L., Pruneri, F., and Rogers, R., Cutting knots ‘together-apart’: Threads of Western and Southern European History of Education research. History of Education 51, no. 2:  https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2166596

Nawrotzki, K. (2022). Schools in the USA. In M. Gläser-Zikuda, M. Harring & C. Rohlfs (eds.), Handbuch Schulpädagogik, 2nd Edition, pp. 254-262. Münster: Waxmann Verlag.

Hai, A.A., May, H., Nawrotzki, K., Prochner, L. & Valkanova, Y. (2020). Reimagining Teaching in Early 20th Century Experimental Schools. Global Histories of Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Prochner, L. & Nawrotzki, K. (2019). The origins of the current era of early childhood care and education. In N. File, C. Brown & M. McMullen (eds.), Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education, pp. 7-28. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Nawrotzki, K. (2018). Froebel is dead; long live Froebel! The National Froebel Foundation and English education. In T. Bruce, P. Elfer and S. Powell (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Froebel and Early Childhood Practice: Re-articulating Research & Policy, pp. 57-67. London: Routledge.

Nawrotzki, K. (2018). Using teacher narratives in early childhood teacher training: History, identity and reflective practice. In T. Bruce, P. Elfer and S. Powell (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Froebel and Early Childhood Practice: Re-articulating Research & Policy, pp. 187-190. London: Routledge.

May, H. & Nawrotzki, K. (2016). Preface. In H. May, K. Nawrotzki & L. Prochner (eds.), Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education: International Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury.

Nawrotzki, K. (2016). 'Such Marvelous Training': Grand Rapids, Michigan as a Kindergartening Centre, 1870-1905. In H. May, K.Nawrotzki & L. Prochner (eds.), Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education: International Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury.

Brehony, K.J. & Nawrotzki, K. (2015). Die Macht des Marktes. Die Zeitpolitik frühkindLicher Betreuung und Bildung in Großbritannien nach 1945. In K. Hagemann & K. H. Jarausch (eds.), Halbtags oder Ganztags? Zeitpolitiken von Kinderbetreuung und Schule nach 1945 im europäischen Vergleich, pp. 286-313. Weinheim: Belz Juventa.

Willekens, H., Scheiwe, K. & Nawrotzki, K. (2015). Introduction: The Longue Durée – Early Childhood Institutions and Ideas in Flux. In H. Willekens, K.Scheiwe & K. Nawrotzki (eds.), The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America, Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-30.

Nawrotzki, K. (2015). Saving Money or Saving Children? Nursery Schools in England and the United States. In H.Willekens, K. Scheiwe & K.Nawrotzki (eds.), The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America, Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 150-172.

Dougherty, J. & Nawrotzki, K. (2013). Writing History in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Read the 2013 book free online at www.digitalculture.org/books/writing-history-in-the-digital-age/, or read the commentable Spring 2012 web-book edition at WritingHistory.trincoll.edu. 

Brehony, K.J. & Nawrotzki, K. (2013). "Friedrich Froebel." In Heather Montgomery, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York: OUP.

Nawrotzki, K. (2012). “Parent–School Relations in England and the USA: Partnership, Problematized”, in S. Andresen and M. Richter, eds., Mapping Families: Practices and Concepts of Children, Parents, and Professionals, Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research Series, ed. Asher-Ben Arieh. Heidelberg: Springer.

Nawrotzki, K. (2009). "'Greatly changed for the better': Free Kindergartens as transatlantic 'Reformance'," History of Education Quarterly 49:2, 182-195. Guest Editor and preface author of same issue.

Nawrotzki, K. (2009). "'A strategic position in American education': Diskursive und legislative Strategien für die Erweiterung der öffentlichen Kindergärten (1850-1950)" in J. Ecarius, C. Groppe und H. Malmede, eds., Familie und öffentliche Erziehung. Theoretische Konzeptionen, historische und aktuelle Analysen (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag), 119-138.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Early Childhood Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London (2007 US National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoc)

Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow)

M.Phil. in Economic and Social History, Oxford University (Oriel College/Mayer Scholar)

B.A. History, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (numerous scholarships, with high honors and high distinction)

B.A. Elementary Education University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (with high distinction)

State of Michigan Teaching Qualification, Elementary (Primary)