A social history of educational studies and research

Howlett, John

Abstract

‘Interdisciplinarity’ is a term currently very much in-vogue within academic circles with academics encouraged in their work to draw connections between various and disparate disciplines. At university level, much is frequently made of the need to foster collegiality between departments. Well intentioned as such overtures often are, it has been history of education which has suffered most here, caught as it is between the incongruent pulls of education studies, social science and history with respected figures in the field often aligned or placed within one, both or all camps. Whilst some historians have railed against the need for forced collaboration and the insipid demand for research to have contemporary ‘relevance’, the development of history of education as an independent discipline, as this intriguing book shows us, has been anything other than straightforward and it has frequently found itself vying for attention and recognition with its more obviously social scientific cousins.

Citation

Howlett, J. (2019). A social history of educational studies and research. History of Education, 48(3), 422-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2018.1474277

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 24, 2018
• Online Publication Date: May 24, 2018
• Publication Date: May 4, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 5, 2023
• Journal: HISTORY OF EDUCATION
• Print ISSN: 0046-760X
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 422-424
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2018.1474277