Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935 (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009

0300144350 / 9780300144352

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Paperback. This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. Here, Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements-social and scientific-combined to transform the study of the child. Drawing on nationwide archives and extensive interviews with child study pioneers, Smuts recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established new institutions with new ways of studying children. Part history of science and part social history, this book describes a fascinating era when the normal child was studied for the first time, a child guidance movement emerged, and the newly created federal Children's Bureau conducted pathbreaking sociological studies of children. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. The author shows how interrelated movements - social and scientific - combined to transform the study of the child. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935 (Paperback)
Author
Alice Boardman Smuts
Publisher
Yale University Press, New Haven
Publication year
2009
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0300144350
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9780300144352

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