Paedagogica Historica is a trilingual journal publishing in English, French and German. Articles deal with Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern Period.  The journal encourages social, cross-cultural and historical-comparative approaches and prides itself on content that displays meticulous attention to theoretical and methodological developments.

Special issues of Paedagogica Historica published since 1995 include:

2019 Paedagogica Historica Vol 55, No 1: Education and Emancipation. Myriam Southwell & Marc Depaepe (Eds.)

2018 Paedagogica Historica Vol 54, No 1/2: Education and the Body. Kate Rousmaniere & Noah W. Sobe (Eds.)

2017 Paedagogica Historica, Vol 53, No 6: Images and Films as Objects to Think With: A Reappraisal of Visual Studies in Histories of Education. Inés Dussel & Karin Priem (Eds.)

2017 Paedagogica Historica Vol 53, No 1/2: Culture and Education. Filiz Meşeci Giorgetti, Craig Campbell & Ali Arslan (Eds.)

2016 Paedagogica Historica Vol 52, No 1/2: Education, War and Peace. Gary McCulloch & Georgina Brewis (Eds.)

2015 Paedagogica Historica Vol 51, No 1/2: Education and Power. Historical Perspectives. Iveta Kestere, Zanda Rubene & Irena Stonkuviene (Eds.)

2014 Paedagogica Historica Vol 50, No 1/2: Internationalisation in Education: Issues, Challenges, Outcomes. Joëlle Droux & Rita Hofstetter (Eds.)

2013 Paedagogica Historica Vol XIL, No 1: Rethinking the relationship: society, state and education. Elsie Rockwell & Eugenia Roldán Vera (Eds.)

2012 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLVIII, No 1: Discoveries of childhood in history. Jeroen J.H. Dekker , Bernard Kruithof , Frank Simon & Bruno Vanobbergen (Eds.)

2011 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLVII, No 1/2: Educating the People. The History of Popular Education. Sjaak Braster (Ed.)

2010 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLVI, No 1/2: Education and Inequality: Historical approaches to Schooling and Social Stratification. Alan Sadovnik & Susan Semel (Eds.)

2009 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLV, No 6:  Empires Overseas” and “Empires at Home” Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives on Social Change in the History of Education. Joyce Goodman, Gary McCulloch, & William Richardson (Eds.)

2009 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLV, no. 4/5:  New Education at the Heart of Knowledge Transformations. Rita Hofstetter & Bernard Schneuwly (Eds.)

2009 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLV, no 1/2: Children and Youth at Risk. Ingrid Lohmann & Christine Mayer (Eds.)

2008 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLIV, no 6: Focusing on Method. Paul Smeyers & Marc Depaepe (Eds.)

2008 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLIV, no 5:  A History of Teachers’ Strikes. André D. Robert & Jeffrey Tyssens (Eds.)

2007 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLIII, No 5:  Political Culture, School Texts and Latin American Societies. Martha Cecilia Herrera (Ed.)

2007 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLIII, No 4:  Servants, Domestic Workers and Children. The Role of Domestic Personnel in the Upbringing and Education of the Master’s and Employer’s Children from the Sixteenth to Twenty-first Centuries. Patrizia Delpiano & Raffaella Sarti (Eds.)

2007 Paedagogica Historica Vol XLIII, No 2: Networking and the History of Education. Eckhardt Fuchs (Ed.)

2007 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XLIII, No. 1: 
Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education
. Craig Campbell, Geoffrey Sherington, Margaret White (Eds.)

2006 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XLII, No. 1/2:
New Education: Genesis and Metamorphoses. 
Charles Magnin, Rita Hofstetter, Marc Depaepe (Eds.)

2005 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XLI, No. 1/2:
School and modernity: Knowledge, institutions and practices.
 Cynthia Pereira de Sousa, Denice Barbara Catani, António Nóvoa, Frank Simon (Eds.)

2004 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XL, No. 1/2:
Secondary Education : Institutional, Cultural and Social History. 
Philippe Savoie, Annie Bruter, Willem Frijhoff (Eds.)

2003 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XXXIX, No. 1/2:
Urbanisation and Education: the City as a Light and Beacon. 
Ian Grosvenor, Ruth Watts & Frank Simon (Eds.)

2002 Paedagogica Historica Vol. XXXVII, No. 1: Books and Education 500 Years of Reading and Learning. 
María del Mar del Pozo Andrés, Jeroen Dekker, Frank Simon & Wayne Urban (Eds.)

2001 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. VII: 
Education and Ethnicity
. Geoffrey Sherington & Craig Campbell (Eds.) in co-operation with Jeroen Dekker, R.C. Peterson, John Ramsland & Frank Simon

2000 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. VI: 
The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education
. Marc Depaepe & Bregt Henkens (Eds.) in co-operation with James C. Albisetti, Jeroen Dekker, Mark D’Hoker, Frank Simon & Jo Tollebeek

1999 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. V: 
Faiths and Education: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
. John Coolahan, Richard Aldrich & Frank Simon (Eds.)

1998 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. IV: 
Schooling in Changing Societies: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. 
Czeslaw Majorek, Erwin V. Johanningmeier & Frank Simon (Eds.) in collaboration with William Bruneau

1998 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. III: 
History of Educational Studies 2 vols.
 Peter Drewek & Christoph Lüth (Eds.) in co-operation with Richard Aldrich, Harald Scholtz, Jürgen Schriewer and Heinz-Elmar Tenorth

1996 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. II: 
Education and Cultural Transmission, 
Johan Sturm, Jeroen Dekker, Richard Aldrich & Frank Simon (Eds.)

1995 Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Vol. I: 
The Colonial Experience in Education. 
António Nóvoa, Marc Depaepe & Erwin V. Johanningmeier (Eds.)