The history of education is a contested field of study, and has
represented a site of struggle for the past century of its
development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader
issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been
regarded as being merely peripheral rather than central to them.
Over the years the history of education has passed through a
number of approaches, more recently engaging with a different areas
such as curriculum, teaching and gender, although often losing
sight of a common cause. In this book McCulloch contextualizes the
struggle for educational history, explaining and making suggestions
for the future on a number of topics, including:
- finding a set of common causes for the field as a whole
- engaging more effectively with social sciences and humanities
while maintaining historical integrity
- forming a rationale of missions and goals for the field
- defining the overall content of the subject, its priorities and
agendas
- and reassessing the relevance of educational history to current
educational and social issues.
Throughout this book the origins of unresolved debates and
tensions about the nature of the field of history of education are
discussed and key examples are analysed to present a new view of
future development.
The Struggle for the History of Education demonstrates the key
changes and continuities in the field and its relationship with
education, history and the social sciences over the past century.
It also reveals how the history of education can build on an
enhanced sense of its own past, and the common and integrating
mission that makes it distinctive, interesting and important for a
wide range of scholars from different backgrounds.
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