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Historians of higher education need to consider publishing in non-education history journals [NEHJ’s] to place scholarship, especially for visibility for their research, or remain an isolated research specialization. This examination focuses on the landscape of history journals that publish history of education topics, specifically [NEHJ’s], on an international basis. A case study approach yielded data and, discussion revolves on history of higher education publication uses in four representative case studies: colleges and universities, professors, science, and medicine, to illustrate NEHJ’s and their contribution to history of higher education. Publishing considerations of this scholarly landscape, based on data gathered from various databases will provide the baseline for exploratory discussion of disciplinary cultures as they inform or deform history of higher education published within NEHJ literature. Animated by historiographic, subject, and methodological concerns, this discussion meshes histories of higher education vis-à-vis globalization within the publishing landscape and the transnational turn in scholarship. Journals, geographical and linguistic dispersion, articles and book reviews, are examined, revealing a larger publishing topography for NEHJ journals.
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“There is a tendency of historians of education to confine themselves overly to specialized journals and a pre-determined audience; and finally, the readiness of educational researchers who are not historians of education to adopt an historical dimension in their work.” J. Goodman & I. Grosvenor (2009) “Educational Research—History of Education a Curious Case?” Oxford Review of Education, 35, (2009): 601–616.
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Hérubel, JP.V.M. Clio’s Non-education History Journal’s (NEHJ): Broadening Journal Publishing for History of Higher Education. Pub Res Q 36, 553–569 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-09764-8
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