Editing the International Encyclopedia of Education, 1980–1994

Chapter 6 , Editing of the International Encyclopaedia of Education, 1980–1994, analyses how Husén used his wide network of worldwide educational experts to move beyond the creation of research knowledge, the subject of his earlier work, to its description and publication across world settings. The monumental task he directed, the International Encyclopaedia of Education (IEE), was to make a first attempt to describe the shaping of post-war educational research—reinstated in many national settings, using an important range of influential actors, and their methods, texts and procedures. In addition, the chapter describes the problems in overcoming the challenges of scholarly editing in international knowledge production, and the problems of objectivity and bias.