Full Description
In 1961 the Centre for the Study of the History of Education at Ghent University, Belgium published the first issue of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. This book celebrates its fiftieth volume. In fourteen contributions written by different generations of historians of education, it demonstrates that in an era where the history of education at university level is at risk, both the journal and the discipline are pulsing, and alive and kicking.
Was the journal a trendsetter or a follower, and which position did it take with respect to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education? These are questions addressed in the first section of this book. In the second section, a number of articles show national and transnational developments of the history of education. In their diversity, they make clear how the national and the transnational together characterize the discipline. They show why journals in this domain should stimulate the development of broader concepts and theories in order to put national and regional cases in a broader scientific context and to make them attractive for international readership. In the last section authors turn their minds to the future of the history of education. They write about the shaping of new trends and about moving beyond borders, focusing on, among other things, the challenge of neurosciences and of digital humanities.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.
Contents
Introduction: Shaping the history of education? The first 50 years of Paedagogica Historica Part I: The journal and the discipline 1. Paedagogica Historica: trendsetter or follower? 2. The International Standing Conference for the History of Education and Paedagogica Historica: a historical view on institutional strategies and practices Part II: National and transnational developments 3. The mythology of schooling: the historiography of American and European education in comparative perspective 4. History of education in Canada: historiographic "turns" and widening horizons 5. Cinquante années de débats et de recherches sur l'école française 6. From internal unravelling to transnational assembling: histories of education in Mexico 7. History of education research in Australia: some current trends and possible directions for the future 8. Connected and entangled histories: writing histories of education in the Indian context 8. History of education in Brazil: the construction of a knowledge field Part III: Shaping new trends 10. From dictatorship to democracy: history of education in Spain 11. History of education and the struggle for intellectual liberation in post-Soviet Baltic space after the fall of the Berlin Wall 12. Nature, nurture and neuroscience: some future directions for historians of education 13. Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education 14. Mapping the discipline history of education
