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Special Issue of PAEDAGOGICA HISTORICA: HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE POSTMODERN ERA
edited by Sol Cohen and Marc Depaepe. Gent, Belgium: Universiteit Gent, 1996. 288 pp. $40.00 (paper).
The 1996 special issue of Paedagogica Historica (PH), the journal of educational history produced at the University of Gent, Belgium, is titled, "History of Education in the Postmodern Era." Claiming that "the history of education . . . has so far been unable to integrate postmodernist theories adequately into its own discourse" (p. 302), the editors challenge educational historians to bring educational historiography into the postmodern era. They succeed in producing a thoughtful contribution to the field. This special issue is a long-overdue step, making explicit the relationship between postmodernism and the history of education.
The special issue contains six articles, one review article, and several book reviews. All but one of the articles - Heinz-Elmar Tenorth's evaluation of the state of the history of education in Germany - are printed in English. (In the journal's twenty-five-year history, approximately half of its articles have been in English.)
The editors asked each of the contributors to address one of...