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The Proper Place of Theory in Educational History?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Wayne J. Urban
Wayne J. Urban*
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University of Alabama
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I am pleased to respond to this series of essays, shortened versions of which were presented at the AERA meeting in San Diego in April 2009. When I heard Eileen Tamura, Carolyn Eick, and Roland Coloma talk about theory in educational history in San Diego, I responded positively to what I thought was serious work and an invitation to those of us who don't do that kind of work to consider its value. Reading the essays, seeing the arguments fleshed out, I am able here to react more extensively to each.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 2011 , pp. 229 - 238
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Copyright © 2011 by the History of Education Society 

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6 The volume, tentatively titled Leaders in the History of American Education: Autobiographical Essays, will take its place alongside of two previous volumes, one in philosophy of education and another in curriculum studies, and will be published by Sense Publishing Company of the Netherlands, under the leadership of Leonard Waks, a retired philosopher of education.Google Scholar

7 It should be noted that Klohr helped to initiate a significant upheaval in the field of curriculum studies and, to a lesser extent in curriculum history, with the emergence of a group of theorists knows as the “reconceptualists.”Google Scholar

8 Bernadette Baker has published a book in history of education, though not one which focuses on the United States. See Baker, In Perpetual Motion: Theories of Power, Educational History, and the Child “New York: Peter Lang, 2001”.Google Scholar

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14 I would add the names of Sol Cohen and Richard Angelo as contemporary educational historians who work with theoretical insights and perspectives.Google Scholar