Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

From the 1880s to the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide. Science of the Child charts the rise and fall of the interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of children across the late Imperial and early Soviet eras.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Sciences of the Child in Transnational Perspective


• 2: The Upbringing of Man: Of Nurture and Nature


• 3: Pedagogy as Science: Across Disciplines and Professions


• 4: The Imperfect Child: Between Diagnostics and Therapeutics


• 5: Child Science in Revolution: From Trauma to Transformation


• 6: The Making of Pedology: Science and the State


• 7: Pedology at Work: Instrument and Occupation


• 8: Conclusion: The Afterlife of a 'Repressed Science'

About the author

Andy Byford is Professor of Russian at Durham University. He has published extensively on the history of the humanities academia, human sciences, medicine, education, and related professions in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia.

Summary

From the 1880s to the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide. Science of the Child charts the rise and fall of the interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of children across the late Imperial and early Soviet eras.

Additional text

Pedology as the Science of the Child is essential to understand the history of education in the late Russian Empire and the first decades of the USSR, but also the evolution of state policies towards childhood, child education, and the future that children embodied.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Byford, Andy (Professor in the School of Modern La Byford
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198825050
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882505-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, EDUCATION / History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, History of Education, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions