Kontrollierte Räume? Erziehende und gemeinschaftsbildende Settings neben den Unterrichtsräumen am Zürcher Seminar Küsnacht im 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert

Besides the actual teaching in specialized classes and practical trainings, students at the Seminar – understood as a social space – were to be educated in a more subtle way to become ideal teachers. Not surprisingly, education was supposed to happen in the seminary (Konvikt), where students lived together and where a regime of control was established and, at the same time, undermined in manifold ways. Whereas the seminary (Konvikt) is associated with discipline and control, the students’ associations were said to be spaces of freedom and unfolding. A closer look shows that also these associations were part of the educational goals and practices in teacher education, which were realised by students and by teachers likewise. This paper shows how both freedom and control, as two sides of the same coin, contributed to education through the community within the social space of the Seminar and how people who could not be educated by these means were expelled from it.