Aims and scope
History of Education is a UK-based journal that publishes original research in the history of education from all parts of the world. It is associated with the UK History of Education Society. Articles deal with formal and informal education, including – but not restricted to – the history of schooling at all levels, universities, youth movements, adult education, educational ideas and biography, educational reform, and the politics of education. We welcome submissions on all periods of history, including the ancient and medieval worlds.

Our peer-reviewed articles are based on primary source research in the history of education. They embody rigorous research and engage with the historiography of education and often other areas of historical scholarship. The word limit for an Article is 10,000 words. This covers all text in the article, including references.

A regular special section of the journal, ‘ Workspace: Dialogues, Iterations, Provocations’, features articles that examine specific bodies of source material or explore new ways of interpreting the history of education.

The journal also publishes book reviews.

History of Education publishes guest-edited special issues and sections. Recent and forthcoming examples include the following:

‘“Education fever”: Korea from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century’
‘Education and the life course’
‘Ambivalent histories: education, ‘race’, and the modernisation of settler/colonial governance in Australasia and the Pacific, 1900s–1960s’
‘How cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning’
‘Cultivating children and youth: transnational explorations of the urban and natural’
‘Bodies and minds in education’
‘Celebration, commemoration and collaboration: milestones in the history of education’
‘Sight, sound and text in the history of education’
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.