A Crucible of Contradictions
Historical Roots of Violence against Children in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9885271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Finkelstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/369178 |
| PMID | 17722374 |
| OpenAlex | W2147402242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The wonderful thing about the history of education as a field of study is the permeability of its boundaries, its intellectual squishiness, the expansiveness of its definitions of education and history-doing, and its capacity to tie scholarly pursuit and social imperatives so closely together. As histo? rians, we have, I believe, been uncommonly sensitive to issues of compelling political and ethical importance in education, a sensitivity which shows in the ways in which we have engaged our work. Consider the content of presidential addresses to the History of Education Society (HES) over the last decade, a wonderful thing to do by the way, since presidential addresses are an evocative and creative genre in our craft. Dazzlingly diverse in focus and content, those addresses have almost unvaryingly constructed ways to enlarge the reach of our field in ways that join it to the cause of social justice, civic reconstruction, school reform, a free press, and new modes of both conceiving and informing public policy. They constitute essays in social criti? cism as well as historical exploration. Whether their content has centered on re-definitions ofthe field, the recovery of previously invisible educational experiences, the discovery of lost voices, the politics of school reform, the illumination of undiscovered traditions, the critique of contemporary policies, HES presidential address? es, like historical studies in our field typically do, reveal the dilemmas and complexities of current practice. As message systems they often deliver up journalistic and political bad news: that educational practices change slowly if at all; that most politically possible solutions to educational problems are disjoined from the problems that gave rise to them in the first place; that the realities which need fixing are embedded in the deep structures of
Criminology · Crucible (geodemography · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |