Thinking transnationally: interconnections and connectivity within and across Australia and New Zealand

Abstract

In this article I examine the role of ANZHES and its contribution to the development of the field over the past 40 years. Drawing on a range of theories, I argue that the annual exchange (or pilgrimage) of academics between Australia and New Zealand has been a vital component in the nurturing of our intellectual geographies and the formation of ANZHES as an intellectual community of scholars. And while ANZHES might well be borderless, there has been a gradual emergence of a border zone as academic work, academic knowledge and the Academy has been increasingly fractured, partitioned and dispersed. What then is the disciplinary territory that historians of education now occupy? How has the landscape of our work shifted and changed? To what extent might these connections be represented in ANZHES’ academic journal?

Citation

Fitzgerald, T. (2010), "Thinking transnationally: interconnections and connectivity within and across Australia and New Zealand", History of Education Review, Vol. 39 No. 2, pp. 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/08198691201000011