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Historical Revisionism, Educational Theory, and an American Paideia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jennings L. Wagoner Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia

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Copyright © 1977 by New York University 

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1. Buck, Paul H., Faust, Clarence, Hofstadter, Richard, Schlesinger, Arthur Sr., and Storr, Richard, The Role of Education in American History (New York, 1957), p. 2.Google Scholar

2. See, for example, the comprehensive review of educational historiography by Sloan, Douglas, “Historiography and the History of Education,” Review of Research in Education, 1 (1973): 239248. See also Church, Robert L., “History of Education as a Field of Study,” Encyclopedia of Education, 4 (1971): 415–424; Cohen, Sol, “New Perspectives in the History of American Education, 1960–1970,” History of Education, 2 (1973): 79–96; Talbott, John, “The History of Education,” Daedalus, 100 (1971): 133–150; and Tyack, David B., “New Perspectives in the History of American Education,” in The State of American History , ed. Bass, Herbert J. (Chicago, 1970), pp. 22–43. Indicative also of the broadened perspective of educational history are reviews of literature in “related” fields, as for example, Cremin, Lawrence A., “The Family as Educator: Some Comments on the Recent Historiography,” Teachers College Record, 76 (December, 1974): 250–265 and Cremin, Lawrence A., “Reading, Writing, and Literacy,” The Review of Education, 1 (November, 1975): 517–521.Google Scholar

3. Bailyn, Bernard, Education in the Forming of American Society (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960).Google Scholar

4. Sloan, , p. 240; Cohen, Sol, “The History of the History of American Education, 1900–1965: The Uses of the Past,” Harvard Educational Review, 46 (August, 1976): 301.Google Scholar

5. Bailyn, , pp. 78.Google Scholar

6. Ibid., p. 9.Google Scholar

7. See, for example, Brickman, William W., “Revisionism and the Study of the History of Education,” History of Education Quarterly, 4 (December, 1964): 209223 and Wesley, Edgar Bruce, “Lo, the Poor History of Education,” History of Education Quarterly, 9 (Fall, 1969): 329–341.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8. Bailyn, , p. 14.Google Scholar

9. Cremin, Lawrence A., The Transformation of the School, (New York, 1961).Google Scholar

10. Cremin's most notable works not otherwise mentioned in this review include Cremin, Lawrence A., The American Common School: An Historic Conception (New York, 1951); Butts, R. Freeman and Cremin, Lawrence A., A History of Education in American Culture (New York, 1953); Cremin, Lawrence A., Shannon, David A., and Townsend, Elizabeth, A History of Teachers College, Columbia University (New York, 1954); and Cremin, Lawrence A., The Genius of American Education (New York, 1965).Google Scholar

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12. Cremin, Lawrence A., American Education: The Colonial Experience (New York, 1970).Google Scholar

13. Cremin, Lawrence A., Traditions of American Education (New York, 1977), p. viii.Google Scholar

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15. As quoted in Skotheim, Robert Allen, American Intellectual Histories and Historians (Princeton, N.J., 1966), p. 3.Google Scholar

16. Welter, Rush, American Writings on Popular Education: The Nineteeth Century (New York, 1971), p. xv.Google Scholar

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