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Styles of Reason: Historicism, Historicizing, and the History of Education

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Rethinking the History of Education

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This chapter examines two different historical styles of reason to talk about how the traces of the past are studied. In talking about history as styles of reason, it explores the principles thatgovern the forms of historical questions, its methods and meanings of the archive, and the modes of judgments in the narratives of history. Differences discussed as styles of reason are to explore how complex movements of thought and cultural practices produce ways in which judgments are made, conclusions drawn, and the fields of existence made manageable within the field of history.

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Popkewitz, T.S. (2013). Styles of Reason: Historicism, Historicizing, and the History of Education. In: Popkewitz, T.S. (eds) Rethinking the History of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137000705_1

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