History of Education Society

The History of Education Society is an "international scholarly society devoted to promoting and teaching the history of education across institutions."^[1] The Society was founded in 1960. Its journal is the History of Education Quarterly.

History of Education Society

Abbreviation	HES
Formation	1960; 64 years ago (1960)
President	Adrea Lawrence
Vice-President and President-Elect	Linda Perkins
Website	www.historyofeducation.org

History

The History of Education Society emerged as the field of the history of education began to coalesce. Early work in the field began in the late 1800s, but became an academic discipline in the early 1900s with the work of Ellwood Patterson Cubberley and Paul Monroe. Teachers in training were then taught the institutional history of American public school education, particularly as "an inevitable outcome of consensus forged by a democratic society". In 1948, the National Society of College Teachers of Education began a History of Education Section. The Section published the History of Education Journal. Scholars argued over the field's aims throughout the 1950s. The Ford Foundation formed a Committee on the Role of Education in American History in 1957 to create a history of education from a history of public schools, an effort to make the field more scholarly. The History of Education Society was founded as an independent organization in 1960, succeeding the Section. With its creation came legitimacy for the field as academic study. The society was influenced by revisionism in the 1970s, which encouraged its historians to debate American public education's societal and individual roles in the society's journal and annual meetings. Towards the end of the century, the education history field grew to include histories of the family, media, religion, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and educational opportunity.^[2][3]

In 1961, the History of Education Quarterly replaced the History of Education Journal and published the society's work. The journal operated out of the University of Pittsburgh with Ryland W. Crary as its editor and later moved to New York University, Indiana University, Slippery Rock University, the University of Illinois and the University of Washington. Other editors have included William J. Reese.^[2]

In 1988, the society affiliated with the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, which hosts annual meetings for the field around the world in conjunction with regional history of education societies.^[2]

The History of Education Society holds its annual conferences in every region of the United States.^[4] The Society also hosts several awards for scholars.^[5]

References

1. "History of Education Society". historyofeducation.org. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
2. Richard Altenbaugh (2009). "History of Education Society". In Provenzo, Eugene F.; Renaud, John Phillip (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. pp. 411–412. ISBN 978-1-4129-0678-4.
3. MacDonald, Victoria-Maria, "History of Education". In The Greenwood Dictionary of Education (2nd ed.), eds. John W. Collins and Nancy Patricia O'Brien. ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 219. ISBN 978-0-313-37931-4.
4. "Annual Meeting". History of Education Society. 13 October 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
5. "Awards". History of Education Society. 6 March 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019.

Further reading

• Beadie, Nancy; Williamson-Lott, Joy; Gottesman, Isaac (2015). "History of Education Quarterly (HEQ) (US)" (PDF). In J. L. Hernández Huerta; A. Cagnolati; A. Diestro Fernández (eds.). Connecting History of Education: Scientific Journals as International Tools for a Global World. Salamanca: FahrenHouse. pp. 137–140. ISBN 978-84-942675-8-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-01. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
• Urban, Wayne J. (2010). "The Word from a Walrus: Five Decades of the History of Education Society". History of Education Quarterly. 50 (4): 429–459. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00289.x. ISSN 0018-2680. JSTOR 25799351. S2CID 142553705.