From School Inspectors to School Inspection. Supervision of Schools in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times explores a broader and more ambivalent view of the formation of inspection and supervision over modern school systems. It primarily focuses on Europe, both geographically and culturally. Within this narrow space, it addresses a longer period of history, spanning from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
The contributions call attention to both the institutions of inspection including its relevant actors, and the processes of inspection and supervision over school teaching and school systems. The book examines how the formation of school inspection in various parts of Europe came about and how its activities related to Europe's political and educational challenges.

Tomáš Kasper, Martin Holý, Marcelo Caruso and Markéta Pánková
School Inspectors and School Inspections from the Middle Ages
to Modern Times: Introduction to the Topic..................................................... 9
Marcelo Caruso
Inspections and Inspectors in Modern School Systems.
Genealogies and Historiographical Remarks ....................................................20
Part 1
School supervision in the early modern Period
Wolfgang Mährle
Religiöses Bekenntnis, Bildungspolitik und Hochschulaufsicht
im konfessionellen Zeitalter: Das Beispiel Nürnberg¿Altdorf.......................... 35
Stephanie Hellekamps und Hans-Ulrich Musolff
Innere und äußere Schulaufsicht im Fürstbistum Münster.
Zur Bedeutung des Präfekten für Unterricht und Studium
am Beispiel eines Jesuitengymnasiums 1588-1779........................................... 48
Martin Holý und Kate¿ina Bobková Valentová
Die Lateinschulen und die Schulaufsicht
in den böhmischen Ländern der Frühen Neuzeit............................................. 62
Aurélie Perret
Charles Démia and the Bureau des Ecoles:
Supervision of Charity Schools in Lyon During the 17th Century.................. 77
Jean-Luc Le Cam
Das braunschweigische Schulinspektorat:
eine Institution zwischen Restauration und Revolution (1648-1680).............. 89
Part 2
School inspection as an institution of the modern
school: beginnings, processes of establishment,
and realization from the 18th to the 20th century
Simonetta Polenghi and Juri Meda
Backing the Normal Method. The Role of Local and Chief School
Inspectors in Elementary Schools in Milan under Austrian
and French Rule (1786¿1859)...................................................................... 111
Gabriela Wüthrich
Promoting God¿s Children and Devout Burghers.
A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Early Modern School
Supervision in Switzerland ........................................................................... 125
Andreas Golob
Einsichtnahmen in das Schulwesen für ¿jedermann¿?
Zum Öffentlichkeitscharakter des deutschen Schulwesens
der Habsburgermonarchie im späten 18. Jahrhundert
im Spiegel des Wienerischen Diariums bzw. der Wiener Zeitung ..................... 141
Viktoria Gräbe und Michael Wermke
Die ministeriellen Inspektionen in den Schulprogrammen
höherer jüdischer Schulen im 19. Jahrhundert ¿
das Beispiel Frankfurt am Main .................................................................... 153
János Ugrai
Denominational Differences in the First Intensive Phase of the
Establishment of School Inspectorates in Hungary (1770¿1848).................. 173
Martin Kle¿acký
Die Anfänge der Staatsaufsicht über das Volksschulwesen:
Bezirksschulinspektoren und Politik in Böhmen (1869¿1873)...................... 187
Libor Stan¿k
Visitations of Trivial Schools in the Budweis Diocese
between 1805 and 1869................................................................................ 202
Petr Kadlec
The Role of School Inspectors in the Development
of Cisleithanian Vocational Education from the 1850s
to the Early Twentieth Century..................................................................... 221
Marzena Bogus-Spyra
Schulaufsicht in der ¿Provinz¿ - Österreichisch-Schlesien
im 19. Jahrhundert........................................................................................ 233
Snježana Šušnjara
Supervision of Teachers¿ Work during the Austro-Hungarian Period
in Bosnia and Herzegovina............................................................................ 244
Ivan Puš
Ideologische Gegner, oder streng neutrale Aufsichtsorgane?
Der deutsche und tschechische Bezirksschulrat
in Olmütz in den Jahren 1907¿1914 ............................................................ 257
Tomáš Kasper
Two Worlds, One State ¿ Minority Schools as a Space
for Controlling the Borders between the Self and `the Other¿........................ 267
Stefan Johann Schatz
Homogeneous Ancient Heritage Lands of German People.
The Germanization of Geography by the Sudeten German School
Administration (1938¿1945) ....................................................................... 279
About Authors .......................................................................................... 291
Index of Persons ......................................................................................... 294
Index of Places ........................................................................................... 295