Paedagogica Historica

Jeroen Dekker, M Depaepe, Maria Del Mar del Pozo Andrés, I. Grosvenor

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Abstract

In 1961 the Centre for the Study of the History of Education at Ghent University published the first issue of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica. International Journal of the History of Education. The editorial stated that this new initiative was the result of a resolution passed by the 8th Congress of the History of Sciences in Florence in 1956, which insisted
upon the necessity of ‘composing a Universal History of Education with the co-operation of experts belonging to the whole world’, and of a survey in 1959 of university professors who called for ‘an international review devoted especially to the history of education’ (Dekker and Simon, 2014). Initially published two or three times a year, Paedagogica Historica soon became a worldwide authority in the field, a status helped its practice of promoting
international contact and exchange amongst historians of education and the publishing of an annual bibliographical special issue which became an essential research instrument for every historian who needed information about education (Dekker and Simon, 2014). By the mid1980s its reputation was such that R.J. Wolff, in an article comparing it with four other European history of education periodicals, stated that it was ‘probably the most widely known and consulted foreign journal of the history of education in the United States’ (Wolff, 1986: 88).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConnecting History of Education
Subtitle of host publicationScientific Journals as international tools for a global world
EditorsJ.L. Hernández Huerta, A. Cagnolati, A. Diestro Fernández
Place of PublicationSalamanca
PublisherEdiciones FarenHouse
Pages159-164
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-84-942675-8-1
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameCollection Ágora
Number3
NameSeries Educación
Volume3

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