Charting the way forward. Integrating historical perspectives and inquiries into contemporary educational debates
NW 17 Histories of education
Education is a future-oriented enterprise, implying possibilities, and potentially uto-pian ideals of what a positive future should look like. Educational theory and prac-tice are thus a bridge between the lived present and desired future. But education is also an enterprise firmly rooted in the past. In this special call we invite reflec-tion on the overall conference theme, ‘charting the way forward’, from perspectives informed by the past. We invite methodologically and theoretically focused contri-butions which draw on historical evidence and historical/interdisciplinary approach-es to interrogate the extent to which education can and should direct and inform our futures.
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