Interview with Marc Depaepe

The name of Marc Depaepe is one that any historian of education knows, surely in connection with Paedagogica Historica and ISCHE, but also with regard to his countless scientific works. His research interests concern the history of educational sciences in an international perspective; the history of education in Belgium (mainly primary and preschool education); the history of colonial and missionary education in the former Belgian Congo; and the historiography, theory and methodology of the history of education as a discipline. His scientific works has deeply influenced the field of history of education, opening new paths in the research. His co-direction of Paedagogica Historica and his commitment to ISCHE, in particular, have managed to build a wide scientific network, thus enlarging the horizon also to non-Western countries.