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Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia by Andy Byford 9780192558633 0192558633

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Author(s): Byford, Andy

ISBN(s): 9780198825050, 0198825056

Edition: Illustrated

File Details: PDF, 32.70 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

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Author: Andy Byford

Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Between the 1880s and the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide, including in the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union. Those who claimed children as special objects of investigation were initially spread across a network of imperfectly professionalized scholarly and occupational groups based mostly in the fields of medicine, education, and psychology. From their various perspectives, they made ambitious claims about the contributions that their emergent expertise made to the understanding of, and intervention in, human bio-psycho-social development. The international movement that arose out of this catalyzed the institutionalization of new domains of knowledge, including developmental and educational psychology, special needs education, and child psychiatry. Science of the Child charts the evolution of the child science movement in Russia from the Crimean War to the Second World War. It is the first comprehensive history in English of the rise and fall of this multidisciplinary field across the late Imperial and Soviet periods. Drawing on ideas and concepts emanating from a variety of theoretical domains, the study provides new insights into the concerns of Russia’s professional intelligentsia with matters of biosocial reproduction and investigates the incorporation of scientific knowledge and professional expertise focused on child development into the making of the welfare/warfare state in the rapidly changing political landscape of the early Soviet era

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Sciences of the Child in Transnational Perspective
Modernization and the Biopolitics of Childhood
Towards a Cultural Genealogy of Child Science
Mobilizing the Sciences of the Child
The Inter-Professional Dynamics of Child Science
Child Science as a Transnational Movement
Russo-Soviet Child Science in Transnational Perspective
Historicizing Russo-Soviet Child Science
2. The Upbringing of Man: Of Nurture and Nature
The Upbringing of Man: Vospitanie cheloveka
The Science of Upbringing
Parents and Child Study
The Mother-Educator
The Parents’ Circle
The Parent Diarist
Upbringing in the Laboratory
3. Pedagogy as Science: Across Professions and Disciplines
A Profession without a Science
Towards a ‘Scientific Pedagogy’
The Teacher as Psychologist
Experimental Pedagogy and Pedology
Doctors in Education
4. The Imperfect Child: Between Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Modes of Imperfection
Science of Assessment
Diagnosing Pathology
Curative Pedagogy
Normative Crises and Pathologizations of Childhood
5. Child Science in Revolution: From Trauma to Transformation
Child Science in a Revolutionary Society
Initial Mobilization: Pedology as Opportunity Structure
‘The Moral Defective’
The Defectologists
Revolutionizing Educational Development
Revolutionizing the Human Sciences
Hybrid Psychoanalytics
Pedagogical Reflexology
6. The Making of Pedology: Science and the State
Pedology as a Framework of Integration
Novelty, Complexity, Synthesis
Pedology as a Science of Development
Pedology and Pedagogy
Inaugurating a ‘State Science’
The First Five-Year Plan and the ‘Takeover’ of Child Science
The U-Turn and the Disciplining of Pedology
7. Pedology at Work: Instrument and Occupation
Pedology Black-Boxed
Combating Underperformance
Measuring Development
The School Pedology Service
Pedology Exposed
Pedology Dismantled
8. Conclusion: The Afterlife of a ‘Repressed Science’
The Post-Mortems and Rehabilitations of a Science Called Pedology
Reframing (Russo-Soviet) Child Science