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Byford, Andy – History of Education, 2017
The article discusses the role that conceptualisations of child "imperfection" played in the rise and fall of Russian "child study" between the 1900s and the 1930s. Drawing on Georges Canguilhem's ideas on "the normal" and "the pathological", the article analyses practices centred on diagnosing subnormality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Social Attitudes, Pathology