A comparison of psychology and mental testing in Ontario and Denmark in the early twentieth century

What is it about?

This article compares and contrasts the use of mental testing and the formation of educational streaming in Denmark and Ontario. It adds nuances to the meaning of internationalism and contributes to understanding how testing practices circulated among countries and continents. One way ideas and practices circulated was via informal networks promoted by the education traveller. Key proponents of mental testing in both Denmark and Ontario travelled to continental Europe, England, and the United States studying and observing the practices and institutional arrangements associated with educational streaming during the interwar years.

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Why is it important?

As well as exploring the roots of mental testing and its use in Denmark and Ontario, this article identifies the transnational networks that developed through the circulation, discourse/knowledge, practices and and educational traveller.

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