On history of education: approaches and historiographical reflections on contemporary ways of research

Abstract

This essay explores four books about the history of education written or reedited since 2012. The Introduction addresses a brief reference to the historiography of education in Colombia from the second half of the 20th century to the present. The body explores the convergence points and distances between the researches concerning themes and theoretical and methodological axes. Finally, a brief conclusion is drawn about the findings of this exercise. Throughout this historiographic balance it is argued that recent investigations are articulated in methodological terms through Michel Foucault’s genealogical and archaeological proposal.