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).
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Connecting History of Education |
Subtitle of host publication | Scientific Journals as international tools for a global world |
Editors | J.L. Hernández Huerta, A. Cagnolati, A. Diestro Fernández |
Place of Publication | Salamanca |
Publisher | Ediciones FarenHouse |
Pages | 159-164 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-84-942675-8-1 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Collection Ágora |
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Number | 3 |
Name | Series Educación |
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Volume | 3 |