Welcome to the History of Education Society

 

Announcing Submissions for:

What is new?

  • HES seeks New Home for HEQ Journal

  • Call for Proposals Editorship of HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY

  • Preliminary 2013 Conference Information. The HES annual meeting will be in Nashville, Tennessee October 31 – November 3 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel.  The deadline for securing the room at the conference rate is September 30, 2013.  You can make reservations using the following number 1-800-336-3335 or book through the weblink:

     http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Vanderbilt-Hotel/GroupPages/HistoryofEducati

    Whereas the deadline for submissions for the conference has passed and reviewers are hard at work considering the submissions to the conference, there are still ways to be involved in supporting the organization.  Please send an email to our Vice-President, Dr. James Fraser at jim.fraser@nyu.edu to indicate how you would like to support the annual conference. Please contact Dr. Ralph Kidder at rkidder@marymount.edu concerning registration for the conference.  Registration materials will be available in late summer 2013. In the near future, you will be able to register electronically. 

  • HES Elections 2013 

    • The History of Education Society election has concluded. The four outstanding candidates on the ballot have contributed mightily to the Society over the years. Many thanks to Sherman Dorn, Christine Ogren, Sevan Terzian, and Roberta Wollons for the depth of their commitment to HES and for their leadership in our field!

     Sevan Terzian will serve as a member of the HES Board of Directors, 2013-2016. Christine Ogren will serve as Vice-President/Program Chair in 2013-2014 and as President of the Society in 2014-2015.

    ATTENTION (former) HES MEMBERS:

    If you are not a current member and renew membership before the 10 May deadline for voting in the 2013 election please notify Karen Graves at graves@denison.edu for information on how to register for the ballot.

    To register as a member of the History of Education Society, click the membership link above and follow the instructions.

  • Education, War, and Peace - To coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the International Standing Conference in the History of Education 36 on the theme ‘Education, war and peace’ will be held at the Institute of Education, University of London in July 2014. For more information visit the conference website www.ische2014.org
  • Other upcoming conferences:
    International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 35, Education and Power: Historical Perspectives, Riga, Latvia, August 21-24,
    Organization of Educational Historians, October 4-5, 2013 in Chicago, IL
  • HES Awards and Committees. For a list of prizes, awards and the respective committee members for 2013, please CLICK HERE.   
  • Graduate Student Committee. Congratulations to Amber Jones (ajone37@emory.edu) a graduate student at Emory University, who is the incoming chair of the Graduate Student Committee for HES!  For an introduction to her cabinet members, please CLICK HERE