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Making Scientific Americans: Identif...

Miller, Rebecca B.

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Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century./
Author:	Miller, Rebecca B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	289 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
Subject:	Education history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10627425
ISBN:	9781369981339

Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century.
Miller, Rebecca B.

Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 289 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Harvard University, 2017.

While specialists in all academic disciplines identify with their subjects of study, speaking of themselves for example as Classicists or Sociologists, the status of "scientist" is a uniquely distinctive social category. Educators do not fret about how to teach social studies to "nonsocial scientists" or literature to "nonhumanists," yet in the natural sciences the distinction between "scientists" and "nonscientists" has guided American educational thought and practice for nearly a century. This dissertation examines why American educators adopted a bifurcated approach to science instruction and how their practices produced an increasingly rigid distinction between those inside the world of science and those on the outside.

ISBN: 9781369981339Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171959
Education history.

Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century.
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