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Davidson's Influence on Educational Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Harry Hutton  and
Philip Kalisch
Harry Hutton
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
Philip Kalisch
Affiliation:
Northwest Missouri State College
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Extract

For the group “firmly shaping the historical study of American education,” at the turn of this century, “the seminal book, marking ‘an epoch in the conception of educational history in English,’ was A History of Education written by … Thomas Davidson.”

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Notes and Documents
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , Winter 1966 , pp. 79 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by New York University 

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References

Notes

1. See Brickman, William W., “Revisionism and the Study of the History of Education,” History of Education Quarterly , IV (December, 1964), 209–222. Also see Cremin, Lawrence A., The Wonderful World of Ellwood Cubberley (New York: Teachers College Bureau of Publications, Columbia University, 1965).Google Scholar

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39. The available literature on Davidson includes: Abbot, Florence Arvidson, “Thomas Davidson and His Educational Ministry” (unpublished Master's thesis, Clark University, 1948); Lindsley, Charles B., “The Educational Philosophy of Thomas Davidson” (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1926). Armytage, W. H. G., “Thomas Davidson, Anglo-American Educator,” History of Education Journal, II (Spring 1951), 75-79. More recently John Roemischer of Brooklyn College and Albert Lataner of New York Community College have been carrying on extensive research. See Roemischer's unpublished Doctoral dissertation, “A Synthetic Interpretation of the Technical and Educational Philosophy of Thomas Davidson, 1840-1900,” New York University, 1966.Google Scholar

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