Suchergebnisse

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 -- Science as "the beacon" for social change : the reason of systems in American educational research and development / Thomas S. Popkewitz -- Tactile pedagogies in the postwar : cybernetics, art, and the production of a new educational rationale / Inés Dussel -- Science as utopia : infrastructures, pedagogies and the prophecy of design / Junzi Huang -- Post-World War Two psychology, education and the creative child : fabricating differences / Catarina Silva Martins -- Objectification of human nature : "adolescent" as a taxonomy of postwar-Taiwan Actor / Kai-Jung Hsiao -- The development of the child and national progress : behaviorism and cultural deprivation in Brazil / Ana Laura Godinho Lima -- From teacher to teaching : the embrace of the systems in post-WWII American teacher education research / Sun Young Lee -- Diagrams of feedback : behaviorism, programmed instruction and cybernetic planning / Antti Saari -- From "threat" to "treat" : cybernetics in the Soviet Union / Tatiana Mikhaylova & Daniel Pettersson -- 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 -- Quantification of an educational system : numbers in the social differentiation of Brazil / Natália de Lacerda Gil.

Examines the decision by the State School Board for Kansas to delete the topic of Darwinian evolution from the required curriculum for high school biology, and the topic of big-bang cosmology from the required curriculum for high school physics.

It is argued that the root of the crisis in educational sciences & educational research is their lack of relevance to individuals & societies. New interdisciplinary forms are necessary if educational policies are to meet public needs. The guiding principle should be respect for reality & creativity. Research in education will fulfill its purpose if it helps to solve the problems impeding the full utilization of human resources. S. McAneny