History of education. State of the art in East and South East Europe: introducing the special issue

ABSTRACT This text introduces the special issue “History of Education. State of the art in East and South East Europe”. This issue includes some contributions that were originally presented in the international scientific conference entitled “History of Education as a Scientific Pedagogical Discipline and as a Teaching Subject – Past, Present and Perspectives” held in Montenegro (University of Montenegro) in 2019. These articles provide an overview of the history of education as a scientific discipline of education, as an academic discipline of pedagogy and as a field of pedagogical research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in Eastern and Southeastern European countries, highlighting its main development stages, problems, contexts, themes and actors.