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Historical Revisionism, Educational Theory, and an American Paideia
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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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