Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935

By: Alice Boardman Smuts and Robert W. Smuts and R. Malcolm Smuts and Barbara B. Smuts and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 381 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780300108972
Publisher:: Yale University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/06/12
Copyrighted By:: Alice Boardman Smuts
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Parenting and Family, Psychology, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Daproim Africa
Proofread By:: Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.