This volume presents the findings of a years-long research project that examines the post-1945 development of Hungarian educational science, considering related international processes. The book employs a complex theoretical framework, incorporating Eric Voegelin’s concept of political religion, Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of the scientific field, and Rudolf Stichweh’s criteria for scientific disciplines as organizing principles. From a methodological point of view, the volume utilizes a dive...

School memories has recently become a relevant object of inquiry in the educational historiography, that considers them as traces of what the school of the past has left in our present. The book proposes some possible research paths on individual and collective school memories and, through the analysis of written and filmic sources, presents some case studies for the Italian and Hungarian national contexts.