About Pedagogization: From the Perspective of the History of Education

in Depaepe, Marc (Ed.) Between Educationalization and Appropriation - Selected Writings on the History of Modern Educational Systems (2012)

For history researchers, it is not a needless luxury to consider from time to time the content and the significance of the basic concepts they use, certainly if they have the ambition to interpret and/or ... [more ▼]

For history researchers, it is not a needless luxury to consider from time to time the content and the significance of the basic concepts they use, certainly if they have the ambition to interpret and/or explain history in addition to purely describing it. This self-reflection, compelled by the annually recurring dialogue with educational philosophers (cf. Smeyers & Depaepe, 2006),2 need not necessarily place an emphasis on philosophical abstraction but can just as well start from an examination of the history of one’s own research. Such an approach need not succumb to navel-gazing. Instead, such historical self-reflection possibly points to the creeping (and thereby largely unconscious) shifts in meaning that accompany various fashions (consider the swirling “turns” of recent years), which affect the social scientific vocabulary (historiographic, philosophical, pedagogical, psychological sociological, etc.). By rendering such developments explicit, the epistemological wrestling with the stream of experiences we call 'history', a process that can be chaotic, may in the future perhaps be somewhat less sloppy. Admittedly, even the most critical concepts that emerged from our own work were not always used with methodological care and/or theoretical purity. [less ▲]

Uit de marge van de onderwijsgeschiedenis: schoolschriften als lieux de mémoire (1950-1970)

in Van Gorp, A.; Bakker, N.; Braster, S. (Eds.) et al Materiële schoolcultuur: over artefacten als bron in de onderwijsgeschiedenis (2009)

Ethnohistory of the primary school in Flanders: A step towards the theoretical understanding of the structural and cultural processes, behind schooling and educationalizing

in Filosofiya Obrazovaniya (2008), (1), 122-135