Table of Contents

List of figures and appendices

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Interdisciplines and the modern university

Chapter 3. The Institute of Education London: All the gates of knowledge thrown open?

Chapter 4. Organising the field: From the Standing Conference to the British Educational Research Association

Chapter 5. A Journal for the field?: The British Journal of Educational Studies (With James Thomas)

Chapter 6. Published registers and texts of education

Chapter 7. An interdisciplinary project? The case of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Chapter 8. Crisis and collaboration

Chapter 9. Crossing paths? Educational studies and research in the 21st century

Chapter 10. Conclusions

Bibliography

About the Author

Gary McCulloch is Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK

Steven Cowan is a researcher in the history of education.

Reviews

"[This book] should be an important point of reference for those who seek to understand the contested development of education studies as a discipline and the role that historical research can and should play within it."— John Howlett, History of Education