The Development of the Postwar Western Educational Historiography

There were two transformations in postwar western educational historiography:firstly from traditional educational historiography to new social educational historiography,then to new cultural educational historiography.It had also experienced a shift from unitary to multi-dimensional interpretation of educational historiography.Influenced by various ideologies,many schools of educational historiography emerge one after another in major countries of the western world,including revisionism educational historiography,western Marxism educational historiography,feminism educational historiography and multiculturalism educational historiography.The general development trends are as following: firstly,each school has its own characteristics,and meanwhile they interacted with each other;secondly,each school touches on more or less the fields of labor educational historiography,minority educational historiography,urban educational historiography,female and gender educational historiography,marriage and family historiography,children historiography,youth historiography and local educational historiography etc.;thirdly,along with the multi-dimensional development,there is a risk of the popularity and fragmentation of historical relativism.The challenge the western educational historiography confront is how to facilitate a new integration on the basis of multi-dimensional development.