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.

 

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2025 ISCHE Book Award

Award committee 2025:
Simonetta Polenghi, Unicatt, Italy (Chair)
Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano, UCM, Spain
Tanya Fitzgerald, UWA, Australia
Frederik Herman, FHNW, Switzerland
Beatrix Vincze, ELTE, Hungary

 

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