ABSTRACT
The national flagship journal for educational studies was the British Journal of Educational Studies (BJES), which has continued over a sustained period of rapid educational, social and political change. This chapter explores the role of the BJES in supporting disciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in different ways over 1960s, as well as the relationship between the national flagship journal and other journals in the field. It draws on citation network and text-mining analyses of the outputs of the BJES and other key journals. Richard Oliver, Sarah Fielden Professor of Education at the University of Manchester and a leading educational psychologist, also argued that the new conditions after the war would require a rapid improvement in what he described as the 'apparatus of scholarship' in education. The disciplines naturally converge in some areas of educational research, and one such area identified by the topic modelling is assessment, concerns about which run throughout the journal's history.
