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Title:: History, Reason and Pedagogy: A Perspective from Philosophy of History

Keywords:: history of education; pedagogy; historical studies on education; the historical and the logical

Abstract:: Pedagogy and historical studies on education approach their research objects respectively from a logical perspective and a historical one. Although they are different in research object, content, method, but the division of disciplines should not become a barrier to education studies. Research on educational history focuses on how education develops diachronically. As a matter of fact, focusing on the history of education plays two functions: taking the history as research object, it makes an indispensable part of education studies on the one hand; on the other, it is a kind of research method, which helps to correctly understand education. Rather than being confined to keeping a record of historical facts, describing the facts, and collecting and categorizing documents, studies on educational history should tease out how education develops among the various historical facts, gain a reasonable understanding of education and identify its intrinsic logic by employing such methods as induction, analysis, deduction and inference.