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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.
Jennings L. Wagoner Jr.*
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University of Virginia
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1977 , pp. 201 - 210
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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): 239–248. 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

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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): 209–223 and Wesley, Edgar Bruce, “Lo, the Poor History of Education,” History of Education Quarterly, 9 (Fall, 1969): 329–341.CrossRefGoogle 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

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