When science encounters the child : education, parenting, and child welfare in 20th-century America
Title:
When science encounters the child : education, parenting, and child welfare in 20th-century America
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Barbara Beatty, Emily D. Cahan, and Julia Grant.
Publication Information:
New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
ix, 248 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780807746912
9780807746929
Series:
Series Title:
Reflective history series
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Toward a socially relevant science : notes on the history of child development research / Emily D. Cahan -- 2. Psychologizing the third R : Hall, Dewey, Thorndike, and progressive era ideas on the learning and teaching of arithmetic / Barbara Beatty -- 3. The rise of English-only pedagogy : immigrant children, progressive education, and language policy in the United States, 1900-1930 / Carlos Kevin Blanton -- 4. Raising "precocious" children : from nineteenth-century pathology to twentieth-century potential / Roblyn Rawlins -- 5. When physicians and psychologists parted ways : professional turf wars in child study and special education, 1910-1920 / Stephen Woolworth -- 6. In the voices of delinquents : social science, the Chicago area project, and a boys' culture of casual crime and violence in the 1930s / David Wolcott and Steven Schlossman -- 7. The whole child : social science and race at the White House conference of 1930 / Diana Selig -- 8. White teachers and the "black psyche" : interculturalism and the psychology of race in the New York City high schools, 1940-1950 / Jonna Perrillo -- 9. The children of Brown : psychology and school desegregation in midcentury America / Christopher W. Schmidt -- 10. "Training" the baby : mothers' responses to advice literature in the first half of the twentieth century / Rima D. Apple -- 11. Bringing up boys : science, popular culture, and gender, 1890-1960 / Julia Grant -- Coda : the sciences of childhood / Barbara Finkelstein.