New Orders and Old: Historians, Educationists, and the Dynamics of Academic Imperialism

Abstract

How historians began to take over the history of education as carried on by professors of education is analyzed as an instance of academic imperialism by a Professor of the Sociology of Education at the University of Southern California. He sees here a social movement going through stages of unrest, popularization, formalization, and institutionali zation. The Old Order, initially responding defensively, may turn toward self-revitalization by accepting some of the ideas of the New Order.