Daniela Steinberger
Project co-worker

University of Salzburg, Department of Educational Science, Working Group Social Pedagogy
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, Room 2.218, 5020 Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg

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Short CV
Daniela Steinberger completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education and Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, specialising in Historical Educational Research. Since 2018, she has been working as a student assistant on a research project at the Institute of Educational Science. In June 2021, she moved to the University of Salzburg to start her doctoral studies in Social Sciences/FB Educational Science. Daniela Steinberger is working as a research assistant in a third-party funded research project on the history of the kindergarten system in the province of Salzburg (1945-1985). In addition to her academic career, she has practical experience of working in elementary education and childcare centres.

Research focus
Historical educational research (family, children – youth, gender research from a historical perspective)
Elementary education/pedagogy of early childhood
Inclusive education
Qualitative research methods: (historical) discourse analysis

Research projects
Dissertation project: ‘ Gender and family policy as well as educational science discourses on the development of the Austrian kindergarten system using the case study of the federal state of Salzburg from 1945 – 1985’ (working title); main supervision: Prof Dr. Birgit Bütow; secondary supervision: Ulrich Leitner
The development of the kindergarten system in the province of Salzburg from 1945 to 1985 (Duration: 06/2023 to 05/2026; Supervision: Prof Dr. Birgit Bütow; Funded by: Province of Salzburg)
Developments in child and youth welfare and child and youth welfare in the (tense) relationship to curative education and child and youth psychiatry in the province of Salzburg. –Historical reconstruction of the period 1945 to 1975 (Duration: 2019-2022; Head: Prof. Dr Birgit Bütow; Funded by: Province of Salzburg)

Publications
 Steinberger, D., Bütow, B. & Blaha, V. (2023). Oral records as an analytical approach to the historiographical reconstruction of gender dimensions in youth welfare. In C. Antenhofer & U. Leitner (Eds.), Gender and Materiality. Historical perspectives on upbringing, education and socialisation from antiquity to the present. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Steinberger, D. (2022). Anton. In Leitner, U. & Augschöll-Blasbichler, A. (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten/Storie d’infanzia (engl./it./lad.). Innsbruck: Innsbruck university press.
Steinberger, D. (2022). Lydia. In Leitner, U. & Augschöll-Blasbichler, A. (Eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten/Storie d’infanzia (dt./it./lad.). Innsbruck: Innsbruck university press.
Steinberger, D. (2021). Mateřské školy v česko-německém národnostním konfliktu na příkladu Brna a Znojma/Kindergartens in the Czech-German national conflict on the example of Brno and Znojmo. Folia Ethnographica, Moravské zemské muzeum Brno, 55 (2), 253 – 260.
Steinberger, D. (2020). Extra-familial childcare around 1900: The Tyrolean Kulturkampf and the emergence of the first kindergartens using the case study of Telfs. TH. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols, 84, 271-291.

Selected lectures
Gender-specific constructions in curative education reports of Salzburg’s welfare education practice (1945-1975) (with Vanessa Blaha), conference ‘Geschlechterdimensionen in Geschichte und Geschichtsforschung (zu) Sozialer Arbeit’, AG Historische Sozialpädagogik/Soziale Arbeit, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany (February 2024).
Developments in child and youth welfare in the (tense) relationship to curative education in the Salzburg area from 1945 to 1975 – insight into the research results (with Vanessa Blaha), Sozialpädagogische Blicke ‘Der lange Schatten der Pädagogik. Entanglements, entanglements and promises of Salzburg curative education (1945-1975)’, University of Salzburg (November 2023).
‘[…] so that children and young people find the right path in life […]’ – Salzburg’s child and youth welfare in the field of tension between inclusion and exclusion in the period 1945-1975 (with Vanessa Blaha), Section Conference on Social Pedagogy of the ÖFEB, University of Klagenfurt, Austria (September 2023).
‘Instinkthafte, sanfte Mütterlichkeit als universelle Erziehungsmittel’ – Das System Pflegefamilie in Österreich bis zum B-KJHG 1989 (with Vanessa Blaha), conference ‘Die bewegten und bewegenden Jahre in Ausbildung, Praxis und Wissenschaft der Sozialen Arbeit’, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Germany (May 2022).
D’Ånstålt – Childcare outside the family in the 19th and early 20th century. Die Geschichte des Kindergartens in Österreich am Fallbeispiel Telfs, 2nd Innsbrucker Fachtagung zur Elementarpädagogik ‘Perspektiven auf Bildungswege im Kindergarten und in der Volksschule’, (September 2021), online.