Awkward knowledge: the historian of education and cross-border circulations

Authors

  • Martin Lawn Departamento de Educação, Universidade de Oxford. Editor da European Educational Research Journal. Author
  • Rafaela Silva Rabelo Author

Keywords:

Awkward knowledge, transnational, circulation, methodological nationalism

Abstract

Historians of education are having to face problems which for
various traditional reasons, have been avoided. There are strong
borders and boundaries around our work which discipline us, and
yet to which we may be systematically blind. History of education
has had a tendency to treat its subject as naturally national and
having impermeable borders. This way, working in an
interdisciplinary project on a subject which constantly revealed its
cross-border and transnational links, the issue of awkwardness
was clearly revealed. In this paper, fragments of the project are
discussed to raise questions which I consider interesting and
reflexive about the work of contemporary history of education.

Published

2014-04-25

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

Awkward knowledge: the historian of education and cross-border circulations. (2014). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 14(1[34]), 127-144. https://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38866