Abstract
ABSTRACT How might historians of education bring joy to their work and make our scholarship of use to the world? This article suggests returning to Welland Hendrick’s 1909 A Joysome History of Education. This minor but well-circulated text uses humour and irony to poke fun at some of the more obtuse, sacrosanct, and self-righteous aspects of education as seen from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century vantage point of a mid-level and little-known American educator. With apologies to Jonathan Swift, this article advances the modest proposal of taking lessons from Hendrick’s project and considering how satire could be a productive form of critical fabulation for historians of education today.
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