Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education.
In the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have rema...
| Published in: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 861 - 871 |
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Dec2014
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