For two reasons, we are particularly proud to include Wolfgang Brezinka's Philosophy of Educational Knowledge in this series of books on Philosophy of Education. Thefirst is the philosophicalinterestoftheworkitself-its remarkablescholarship and the importance ofthe philosophical positionswill beobvious to allreaders. The secondisthat it brings to the English-speaking world a wonderful example ofeducational philosophy as now being practiced in the German-speaking world. All too often philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition have not seen the sort of perspective on educational thinking that...

The first two volumes of this handbook - planned to contain four volumes - were hailed by the scholarly press as an authoritative work on the European history of education, and acclaimed it as setting new standards in its unsparing analysis and its absorbing text. The third volume deals with the history of the field of education at the Universities of Salzburg and Linz up to the present day, as well as at the University of Czernowitz from 1875 to 1918. Every person who taught education is considered. With what previous training and by what career paths did they become lecturers or professors?...