Passion, Fusion, Tension New Education and Educational Sciences Education Nouvelle et Sciences De l'Education : End 19th - Middle 20th Century Fin du 19e - Milieu du 20e Siecle

This book is about the tumultuous and even passionate relationship between New Education and Educational Sciences, which are regarded as an inseparable « couple, intrinsically linked and surprisingly fruitful.

Yet they remain irreconcilable and are mutually contradictory in a number of their elements and characteristics.

Do Educational Sciences offer a scientific base or ideological support for New Education?

Do the numerous new educational initiatives and reforms provide a « laboratory for Educational Sciences or alternatives to the new scientific paradigms?

Is this at the risk of their merging? And what is the price of these tensions? Specialists in the history of Educational Sciences and New Education from various geographical, cultural and disciplinary horizons explore the complex links between this powerful reforming movement and the nascent disciplinary field that emerged during the first half of the 20th century.