Introduction: Sciences of the Child in Transnational Perspective -- The Upbringing of Man: Of Nurture and Nature -- Pedagogy as Science: Across Disciplines and Professions -- The Imperfect Child: Between Diagnostics and Therapeutics -- Child Science in Revolution: From Trauma to Transformation -- The Making of Pedology: Science and the State -- Pedology at Work: Instrument and Occupation -- Conclusion : The Afterlife of a 'Repressed Science'
Summary
From the 1880s to the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide. Science of the Child charts the rise and fall of the interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of children across the late Imperial and early Soviet eras
