The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years.

Autorentext

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Daniel Pettersson is Associate Professor in Pedagogy at the University of Gävle and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Kai-Jung Hsiao is a PhD student of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Inhalt

1 How Contemporary Educational Sciences Became Reasonable: The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years

Thomas S. Popkewitz, Daniel Pettersson, and Kai-Jung Hsiao

PART 1: MOBILIZING SCIENCE AND DESIRES FOR BETTER SOCIETIES

2 Science as "the Beacon" for Social Change: The Reason of Systems in American Educational Research and Development

Thomas S. Popkewitz

3 Tactile Pedagogies in the Postwar: Cybernetics, Art, and the Production of a New Educational Rationale

Inés Dussel

4 Science as Utopia: Infrastructures, Pedagogies and the Prophecy of Design

Junzi Huang

PART 2: LOCATIONLESS LOGICS AND FABRICATING DIFFERENCES

5 Post-World War Two Psychology, Education and the Creative Child: Fabricating Differences

Catarina Silva Martins

6 Objectification of Human Nature: "Adolescent" as a Taxonomy of Postwar-Taiwan Actor

Kai-Jung Hsiao

7 The Development of the Child and National Progress: Behaviorism and Cultural Deprivation in Brazil

Ana Laura Godinho Lima

8 The Embrace of Systems in Post-World War Two Teacher Education Research

Sun Young Lee

PART 3: SYSTEMS, CYBERNETICS: IMAGINEERING BELONGING AS SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION

9 Diagrams of Feedback: Behaviorism, Programmed Instruction and Cybernetic Planning

Antti Saari

10 From "Threat" to "Treat": Cybernetics in the Soviet Union

Tatiana Mikhaylova & Daniel Pettersson

11 School Differentiation and Re-Forming Human Kinds in Swedish Welfare State Education after the Second World War

Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson and Caroline Runesdotter

12 Quantification of an Educational System: Numbers in the Social Differentiation of Brazil

Natália de Lacerda Gil

Index