The ISCHE First Book Award recognizes a single-authored academic monograph by a historian of education that represents innovative and exemplary scholarship in the field of history of education broadly conceived. As an award given for a first book, ISCHE also seeks to recognize a historian of education of extraordinary capability and promise.

The deadline for submissions is at the end of November and the award decision will be announced at least three months before the annual conference. The award is given every year at the General Assembly meeting during the annual conference, and the awardee is invited to offer brief remarks if present.

A nomination for the ISCHE First Book Award can be made by filling in the ISCHE First Book Award cover sheet, to be sent by email to ische-office@ische.org. Questions about procedures should be addressed to ische-office@ische.org

Two copies of an already published book should be sent directly to the address of the ISCHE office (see below). Any book copyrighted during the current year or the year before is eligible for consideration. Books published in any of the five ISCHE languages (English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish) will be considered for the award. Letters of nomination will not be accepted, however a nominated book may be submitted by any entity including an individual or a publishing house. Entities may submit more than one book. A multi-volume work by a single author can be nominated only after the publication of all volumes. The award decisions will be considered final and not subject to revision or appeal.

Books are evaluated on the following criteria:

• First book published in the current year or the precedent year
• Excellence and thoroughness of historical research
• Innovative and rigorous thinking
• Use of original and primary materials; innovative use of sources
• Suitability and rigor of methodology; innovative methods of analysis
• Integration of sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives
• Style and appropriateness of presentation; exemplary writing and clarity of expression
• Value in furthering the understanding and history of education; impact on the field of history of education

Two copies of the book should be sent to the following address. If you wish to send a digital version, please contact the ISCHE office beforehand.

Jenny Berger (ISCHE)
50658936
Packstation 399
10827 Berlin
Germany

2024 ISCHE Book Award

Ethan W. Ris. Other People’s Colleges. The origins of American Higher Education Reform (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Award committee 2024
Marc Depaepe, KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair)
Simonetta Polenghi, Unicatt, Italy
Joakim Landahl, SU, Sweden
Terciane Luchese, UCS, Brazil
Michael Hevel, UARK, USA

 

2023 ISCHE Book Award

Jil Winandy. National and Religious Ideologies in the Construction of Educational Historiography: The Case of Felbiger and the Normal Method in Nineteenth Century Teacher Education. (London: Routledge, 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

Award committee 2023
Marc Depaepe, KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair)
Simonetta Polenghi, Unicatt, Italy
Joakim Landahl, SU, Sweden
Terciane Luchese, UCS, Brazil
Michael Hevel, UARK, USA

 

2022 ISCHE Book Award

 Erica Moretti. The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).

 

 

 

 

 

Award committee 2022
Marc Depaepe, KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair)
Kevin Myers, University of Birmingham, UK
Ana Laura Godinho, USP, Brazil
Juri Meda, University of Macerata, Italy
Helen Proctor, University of Sydney, Australia

 

2021 ISCHE Book Award

Anna Kathryn Kendrick. Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (Cambridge: Legenda, 2020).

 

 

 

 

 

Award committee 2021
Marc Depaepe, KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair)
Gabriela Ossenbach, UNED Madrid, Spain
Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha, Faculdade de Educacao, São Paulo, Brazil
Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Kevin Myers, University of Birmingham, UK

 

2020 ISCHE Book Award

Rebecca Swartz, Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Award Committee 2020
Frank Simon, Ghent University, Belgium (Chair)
James Albisetti, University of Kentucky, USA
Damiano Matasci, Université de Genève, France
Silvina Gvirtz, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina

 

2019 ISCHE Book Award

 

Natasha Periyan, The Politics of 1930s British Literature: Education, Class, Gender (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

 

 

 

 

Award Committee 2019
Frank Simon, Ghent University, Belgium (Chair)
James Albisetti, University of Kentucky, USA
Inés Dussel, DIE-Cinvestav, Mexico
Damiano Matasci, Université de Genève, France
Pablo Toro, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

 

 

2018 ISCHE Book Award

 

Jon Shelton, Teacher Strike. Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order (University of Illinois Press, 2017).

Award Committee 2018
Frank Simon, Ghent University, Belgium (Chair)
Elsie Rockwell, DIE-Cinvestav, Mexico
Ines Dussel, DIE-Cinvestav, Mexico
Jame Albisetti, University of Kentucky, USA
Solenn Huitric, Le Laboratoire de l’Education – UMS Lyon, France

 

2017 ISCHE Book Award

 

 

Damiano Matasci, L’école républicaine et l’étranger. Une histoire internationale des réformes scolaires en France 1870-1914 (Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2015), 274 pp.

 

Award Committee 2017
Frank Simon, Ghent University, Belgium (Chair)
Christine Mayer, University of Hamburg, Germany
Elsie Rockwell, DIE-Cinvestav, Mexico
Klaus Dittrich, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pablo Pineau, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina