ABSTRACT
This chapter appraises the changing position and health of the history of education as a field of study as it attempts to locate itself to survive and prosper in a rapidly shifting environment into the future. It does so first of all by discussing the strategic position of the field as it has developed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It then examines the internal environment of the field, focusing on the organization and infrastructure of the history of education that has developed since the 1960s in relation to national and international societies and specialist journals. Finally, it investigates the external environment, in particular the relationship between the history of education and educational research.
