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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. Crossing
the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely
examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society
were converted to the search for remaking social life that
paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions.
The book examines how cybernetics and systems theories traveled and
were assembled to turn schools into social experiments and
laboratories for change. Explored are the new comparative
technologies of quantification and the visualization of educational
data used in the methods of mass observation. The sciences not only
about the present but also the potentialities of societies and
people in the psychologies of childhood; concerns for individual
development, growth, and creativity; teacher education; and the
quantification and assessments of educational systems. The book
also explores how the categories and classifications of the
sciences formed at intersections with the humanities, the arts, and
political practices. This informative volume will be of interest to
researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of
curriculum studies, the history of the social sciences, the history
of education, and cultural studies, and to educators and school
leaders concerned with education policy.
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. Crossing
the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely
examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society
were converted to the search for remaking social life that
paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions.
The book examines how cybernetics and systems theories traveled and
were assembled to turn schools into social experiments and
laboratories for change. Explored are the new comparative
technologies of quantification and the visualization of educational
data used in the methods of mass observation. The sciences not only
about the present but also the potentialities of societies and
people in the psychologies of childhood; concerns for individual
development, growth, and creativity; teacher education; and the
quantification and assessments of educational systems. The book
also explores how the categories and classifications of the
sciences formed at intersections with the humanities, the arts, and
political practices. This informative volume will be of interest to
researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of
curriculum studies, the history of the social sciences, the history
of education, and cultural studies, and to educators and school
leaders concerned with education policy.
Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars
across the social sciences and humanities, their role in
structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed
research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the
historical semantics of the oppositions "Hellenes"/"barbarians",
"Christians"/"pagans" and "UEbermensch"/"Untermensch", but his
insights, though eagerly cited, have been rarely developed in a
systematic fashion.This volume intends to remedy this situation by
bringing together a small number of scholars at the crossroads of
history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political
science and international studies in order to elaborate on
Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and adapt it to
current research needs.
Immigration has always been a source of debate for the American
public. During the early part of the 20th century Americans had
concerns about the effects of European immigrants. Today similar
concerns are being raised about Latin American immigrants. This
book presents selected decennial census data on the foreign-born
population of the United States from 1850 to 2000. This book
provides the background knowledge necessary to examine the tables
in a detailed and informed manner. The tables provide statistics
that reveal all the trends in immigration during the last century
of America's history. It is fully indexed.
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