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This article contributes to a sensory history of schooling by examining how the problematisation of the eyesight of school children was, to a large extent, made possible by the epistemic transformations that occurred in science and scientific practice in the mid-nineteenth century.

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This article demonstrates how the scientific basis studies of the eyesight of children in school can be linked to the importance that the sense of sight played in empiricism. These studies provided the scientific basis and method for subsequent studies of the senses of school children and the deleterious effects that resulted from inadequate school buildings, design, etc.

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This page is a summary of: Medico-science and school hygiene: a contribution to a history of the senses in schooling, Paedagogica Historica, December 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2013.856927.
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