Historiographical Resource

Historiographical e-journals, bibliographies, webliographies and research hubs can be very useful both while researching and while writing up findings.
 

There are many online journals concerned with the history of education, almost all of which originate in the English-speaking world, partly because such publications are accredited and counted as peer-reviewed in the countries in question.

These include the American “History of Education Quarterly Index”³⁶, the Australian “History of Education Review”³⁷ and the “Revue d’histoire de l’éducation du Canada”³⁸, The “Revista Brasileira de História da Educação,” pubished in Brasil by the Sociedade Brasileira de História da Educação³⁹, is a rare example of such a journal coming from elsewhere. ressante è costituita dalla brasiliana “Revista Brasileira de História da Educação”, gestita dalla Sociedade Brasileira de História da Educação⁴⁰.

Many periodicals make it possible to consult indices and astracts for back issues without publishing the articles themselves (unlike Jstor, for example). Such is the case with "Annali di storia dell'educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche"⁴¹ and with the French “Histoire de l’Éducation,” also published by the INRP.

The portal of the Istitut National de Recherche Pédagogique provides an invaluable series of thematic databases which are highly useful for research in the history of education field.

The first of these belongs to the Bibliographie d'histoire de l'éducation française and is a collection of texts on the history of education published in France between 1998 and 2001. The second, Emmanuelle 5, lists works on school textbooks and their publishing worldwide from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

The first ever blogs run by educational historians have also begun appearing recently.

These blogs provide up-to-date information on research underway and upcoming conferences. They also offer the opportunity to consult ever-growing online communities of colleagues working in the field.

Two such blogs are of particular interest, inasmuch as they unite a broad community of scholars.

The first is connected to the already-mentioned Red Alfa Patres-Manes, a database of school textbooks, and brings together academics from Spain, Belgium and numerous South American countries⁴².

The second, entitled H-Education, is run by the History of Education Society (HES-USA), and receives comments from academics who are predominantly based in North America and Europe⁴³.
 

³⁶ http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/heq/index.
³⁷ http://www.her-anzhes.co.nz/index.html.
³⁸ http://www.edu.uwo.ca/HSE/indexf.html.
³⁹ http://www.sbhe.org.br/.
⁴⁰ http://www.sbhe.org.br/.
⁴¹ http://www.unicatt.it/centriricerca/Storiaeducazione/Annali/. Abstracts and article titles can be found in a database.
⁴² http://redpatremanes.blogspot.com/.
⁴³ http://www.h-net.org/~educ/.

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