The Old "New History of Education": A German Reconsideration

In the late 1960s great fanfares announced the emergence of a “new history of education.” According to John E. Talbott, “historians have begun to stake new claims in the history of education.” A formerly neglected and somewhat stagnant field started to bustle with excitement in anticipation of novel insights. In retrospect, it took quite a peculiar conjunction of circumstances to create this histo…