| Zum Wohl des Kindes?: Pädologie, pädagogische Psychologie und experimentelle Pädagogik in Europa und den USA, 1890-1940 M Depaepe Leuven University Press, 1993 | 265 | 1993 |
| Order in progress: everyday educational practice in Primary Schools, Belgium, 1880-1970 M Depaepe, K Dams Leuven University Press, 2000 | 159 | 2000 |
| Is there any Place for the History of “Education” in the “History of Education"? A Plea for the History of Everyday Educational Reality in‐and outside Schools M Depaepe, F Simon Paedagogica historica 31 (1), 9-16, 1995 | 153 | 1995 |
| Educationalization as an ongoing modernization process M Depaepe, P Smeyers Educational Theory 58 (4), 379, 2008 | 124 | 2008 |
| Educational research: Why" what works" doesn't work P Smeyers, M Depaepe Springer, 2006 | 112 | 2006 |
| La función de globalización y la enseñanza, y otros ensayos O Decroly, A Van Gorp, F Simon, M Depaepe Memoria y Crítica de la Educación, Serie Clásicos, 2006 | 106 | 2006 |
| De pedagogisering achterna. Een aanzet toteen genealogie van de pedagogische mentali-teit in de voorbije 250 jaar. M Depaepe Pedagogische Studiën 76 (3), 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| About pedagogization: From the perspective of the history of education M Depaepe, F Herman, M Surmont, A Van Gorp, F Simon Educational research: The educationalization of social problems, 13-30, 2008 | 91 | 2008 |
| Educationalization: A key concept in understanding the basic processes in the history of Western education M Depaepe History of education review 27 (2), 16-28, 1998 | 76 | 1998 |
| De pedagogisering achterna M Depaepe Aanzet tot een genealogie van de pedagogische mentaliteit in de voorbije 250 …, 1998 | 74 | 1998 |
| The school desk: from concept to object F Herman, A Van Gorp, F Simon, M Depaepe History of Education 40 (1), 97-117, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| The canonization of Ovide Decroly as a “saint” of the New Education M Depaepe, F Simon, AV Gorp History of Education Quarterly 43 (2), 224-228, 2003 | 71 | 2003 |
| Demythologizing the educational past: An endless task in history of education M Depaepe Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, 208-223, 1997 | 69 | 1997 |
| Between educationalization and appropriation: Selected writings on the history of modern educational systems M Depaepe Between Educationalization and Appropriation, 1-496, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| A Professionally Relevant History of Education for Teachers: Does it Exist? Reply to Jurgen Herbst's state of the art article M Depaepe Paedagogica Historica 37 (3), 629-640, 2001 | 65 | 2001 |
| The ten commandments of good practices in history of education research M Depaepe Zeitschrift für pädagogische Historiographie 16 (1), 31-34, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
| The forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters: a historiographical essay on the educational work of Catholic women religious in the 19th and 20th centuries M Depaepe, F Simon, B Hellinckx The Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters, 1-256, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| The History of Education and the Challenge of the Visual M Depaepe, B Henkens Paedagogica historica 36 (1), 10-17, 2000 | 54 | 2000 |
| Schulbücher als Quellen einer dritten Dimension in der Realitätsgeschichte von Erziehung und Unterricht: über neue Konzeptionen in der historisch-pädagogischen Schulbuchforschung M Depaepe, F Simon Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Historiographie 8, 7-15, 2002 | 52* | 2002 |
| History of education anno 1992:‘A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’? M Depaepe History of Education 22 (1), 1-10, 1993 | 45 | 1993 |
