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Sol Cohen

Professor
Social Sciences and Comparative Education

3139 Moore Hall

(310) 825 8387

scohen@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, Columbia University,1964
Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1966

Research Interests

Methods of Historical Research: written, oral, visual
Theory and Epistemology of Historiography: Postmodernism and the Linguistic Turn
Historiography of American Education: Critical Explorations
American Educational History: Film and Popular Culture as Texts

Teaching Interests

Historical Foundations of American Education
Historiography of American Education
Modern and Post-modern developments in the Social Sciences
American Education in Film and Popular Culture: Textual Readings

Recent Publications

"History, Memory, Community" Historical Studies in Education/ Revue d'Histoire de l'Education (Canada) 2005

"An Essay in the Aid of Writing History: Fictions of Historiography" Studies in Philosophy and Education, (Netherlands) 2004

"An Innocent Eye: The Pictorial Turn, Film Studies, and History", History of Education Quarterly, (U. S. ), 2003

Challenging Orthodoxies: Toward a New Cultural History of Education (Peter Lang, New York), 1999



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