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Paul Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education: With Notices of Educational Encyclopedias Past and Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

William W. Brickman  and
Francesco Cordasco
William W. Brickman
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Francesco Cordasco
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Paul Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education is now well over 50 years old, and no work of comparable scope exists at the present time in English. Although periodic requests have been made for a new encyclopedia of education in English, it is unlikely that Paul Monroe's Cyclopedia will ever be truly supplanted or its continuing value diminished. The importance of the Cyclopedia lies not only in its unchallenged comprehensiveness and scope, but preeminently in the unique contribution it made at a point in time of critical importance in the history of American education.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Fall 1970 , pp. 324 - 337
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Copyright © 1970 History of Education Quarterly 

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1. Monroe, Paul, ed., A Cyclopedia of Education… with the assistance of departmental editors and more than one thousand individual contributors (New York: Macmillan, 1911–1913), 5 volumes. It was reissued, without changes, in 1914–1915; and again in 1925 (5 volumes in three) and in 1926–1928 (5 volumes in three). The Cyclopedia includes 3,694 pages of text and over 7,000 subject entries on topics.Google Scholar

2. “In 1966, there is no recent, scholarly encyclopedia on education published in the United States. Monroe's classic work is now over fifty years old, and the Encyclopedia of Educational Research (4th ed., 1969) is not a complete encyclopedia of the subject. Sets of books by specialists covering the whole field, such as the 100 volume Library of Education issued by the Center for Applied Research in Education, Inc., do not provide the same ready access to information as an encyclopedia”: Burke, Arvid J. and Burke, Mary A., Documentation in Education (New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1967), p. 144. The same source characterizes the Cyclopedia as, “To its date, all that an encyclopedia of education for all time and for all countries should be. Excellent biographies. Still extremely useful for historical and biographical purposes.” (Ibid.) Google Scholar

3. See Brickman, William W., “Needed: A New Educational Encyclopedia,” School & Society (August 6, 1955); and Cordasco, F., “The 50th Anniversary of Monroe's Cylcopedia of Education” School & Society, 91, (March 1963), 123–24; also idem, “Reference Books in Education: A Bibliographical Commentary,” Stechert-Hafner Book News, 17 (March 1963), 81–83. See, generally, Brickman, William W., Guide to Research in Educational History (New York: New York University Bookstore, 1949).Google Scholar

4. Reisner, Edward H., “Paul Monroe, 1869–1947,” Teachers College Record, 49 (January 1948), 291–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. See Cremin, Lawrence A., The Role of the History of Education in the Professional Preparation of Teachers (National Society of College Teachers of Education, Committee on Historical Foundations, 1957).Google Scholar

6. Monroe's studies in American educational history culminated in his publication of The Founding of the American Public School System: A History of Education in the United States From the Early Settlements to the Close of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan, 1940). The mass of documentary evidence was presented as volume II on microfilm. (Currently available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan.)Google Scholar

7. The Textbook in the History of Education was translated into Spanish by Maria de Maeztu (Madrid, 1918); and into Portuguese by Nelson Cunha de Azevedo (São Paulo, 1939).Google Scholar

8. The Brief Course… was translated into Spanish by Dmitri Ivanovitch (pseud.), Panama, 1928.Google Scholar

9. See n.6 supra.Google Scholar

10. Among these were Syllabus of a Course of Study on the History and Principles of Education (1908); Stereopticon Views in the History of Education in the Collection of Paul Monroe (1915); A Report on Education in China (1922); China: A Nation in Evolution (1927).Google Scholar

11. Monroe, Will S., Bibliography of Education (New York: Appleton, 1897; reprinted, Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1968), p. 4.Google Scholar

12. Stanley Hall, G. and John, M. Mansfield, Hints toward a Select and Descriptive Bibliography of Education (Boston: Heath, 1886), p. 2.Google Scholar

13. Ibid., p. 274.Google Scholar

14. Thursfield, Richard E., Henry Barnard's “American Journal of Education” (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1945), p. 311.Google Scholar

15. Monroe, Will, op. cit., p. 3.Google Scholar