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History of Education for the 1990s and Beyond: The Case for Academic Imperialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

N. Ray Hiner*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas

Extract

In his introduction to volume one, number one, of the History of Education Journal, published in autumn 1949, R. Freeman Butts asked, “What would historians be if they did not look at their own history?” Professor Butts did not answer his question, so we may assume it was rhetorical. Yet it would be inexcusable to discuss the future of the history of education as a professional field without some reference to its origins and development. As Lawrence Cremin has noted, the history of education was an important part of the professional training of teachers well before the Civil War and by the early twentieth century had become a virtually universal component of teacher education programs.

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Copyright © 1990 by the History of Education Society 

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