Major Events in the History of American Education

Major Events in the History of American Education

American Education

History of Education in a period of transformation, both theoretical and methodological around the world. Research, conferences and successive publications, nationally and internationally, referring to the renewed of interest in the discipline. This is not a coincidence, but rather the result of a restructuring of space science and national systems education, which provides a new social relevance and academic work history in education. The scientific community is involved in this debate fitted with contradictory feelings of fulfillment and exhaustion, which are the result of achievements of recent decades, but also the desire to go beyond the limits concept of "social history" (Anderson, 1988, pp.96-105).

The primary purpose of this paper is to advance a reasoned presentation of new trends in American history education Because he wants a balance built from the work produced by a hundred researchers, chosen from those with more active presence in the scientific field (conferences, publications,). The style adopted in the organization of the text is that of the state-of-the art, considered as an interpretation personal, and not as an objective picture of trends in a field Scientific. The adoption of a number of analytical criteria used to delineate margins for the year, without interfering in the freedom of the argument. It will without saying that the study does not claim exhaustive. The intention is to suggest that a reading, understanding, based on the identification of authors and research trends the most dynamic. I ask myself as an observer of current developments attempting to produce a meaningful discourse on American historiography of education. The first part provides the framework of the article, through reflection that develops on two levels (Blumin, 1989, pp.65-75). First, an analysis of the Historiographical debates current, in order to identify problems that historical research is faced and how they are subject to a conceptual development in the United States. One may question the relevance of such a "theory theory" in the economy text, but I am convinced that this visit can help to establish affiliations between history and the history of education, while introducing key reading that will be, probably useful to educators and eventually to historians. Then a presentation briefly the history of the history of education in the United States, which is the current issues of discipline and their similarities with the general problems of labor history (Brown, 1989, pp.89-96).

The second part draws a presentation of the "new" American history education in six major trends, discussed through the following movements: structures to actors of the system to schools of the externality to internality; ideas speeches, policy facts, from national to local / global. The decision to limit the discussion to American authors is very controversial, because it tends to reinforce the pretense of their internalist discourse, while preventing a confrontation between the historiographies of one and the other side of the Atlantic. But you cannot do everything, and this option will make statements clearer and better ...