This paper reports on some of the important considerations that characterize historical study in the field of educational technology. Intellectual history is the history of thought or some specific aspect of thought, and is divided into three primary areas of study: (1) biography--studies focusing on the thoughts, work, and lives of single…

Discusses the perspectives of historical text as evolving from respective historical representation. Explores methods of educational history through writings, documents, biographies, autobiographies, issues of source and technicalities, and historian viewpoints. Offers that historian's voices must be positioned critically and reflectively at the…

Emphasizes four points of entry that history provides for historical analysis: (1) doing of history as the capacity to explore origins and ideas; (2) history as a vehicle for social choices and alternative possibilities; (3) biography as a window to view social change; and (4) exploration of intersections between human aging and social structure.…