50th Anniversary Retrospective “Virtual” Issue of History of Education Quarterly (input requested by July 15, 2010.  Please send to HEQ50th@gmail.com).

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The History of Education Society will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and plans are already underway to mark the occasion at the upcoming HES meeting, to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-7, 2010. 

As part of the activities and projects planned to celebrate HES’s half-century, we will be producing a special electronic retrospective issue of the History of Education Quarterly.  This special “virtual” issue of HEQ will contain approximately 20 articles that have been previously published in HEQ—from the journal’s beginning in March of 1961 to the most recent issue.  Because there are space limitations in the electronic issue, supplemental material – providing more discussion about the selections and additional citations to provide a stronger sense of context and increase the issue’s usefulness as a reference and teaching resource – will be posted on the HES website.  

The virtual HEQ issue project is an opportunity for HES members to glimpse into the intellectual past, to consider the articles and scholarly discussions that have filled the pages of HEQ over fifty years, as well as to look to the future—to generate interest among graduate students and introduce scholars in other fields and professional societies to our journal, HEQ, and to the History of Education Society.   Wiley-Blackwell will market the virtual issue of HEQ to a wide audience, helping to bring greater attention to the journal and helping to advertise HES’s 50th anniversary meeting in November.   The target date for launching the special virtual retrospective issue of HEQ is early this fall. 

I appreciate the feedback and ideas for various articles to include in the virtual issue that I have already received.  In the coming weeks I will be working more closely on this project with a newly formed advisory committee of graduate students and with nominations received from the HES membership.  Toward this goal, I am writing to solicit suggestions for articles to reprint in the 50th anniversary virtual issue of HEQ and citations to include on the related webpage of supplemental material.  I hope you will be interested in contributing to this 50th anniversary project by responding to this brief survey (see attachment).  Are there particular articles that you think aptly capture HEQ’s fifty years?

Many thanks for your time, suggestions and feedback.  See you in Cambridge!

Andrea Walton

Chair, 50th Anniversary Committee

andwalto@indiana.edu    (for correspondence)

HEQ50th@gmail.com  (to return survey)