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This article locates the origins of special education in the late nineteenth century medical-scientific empiricism that began with a mapping of the body of the school child that produced a series of normalizations. These normalizations equated physical 'defect' or with cognitive 'abnormality'.
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This article shows how scientific positivism that eschewed any notion of causality was the dominant form of educational reasoning in the early twentieth century.
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This article is about the origins of mental testing as an instance of scientism that drew upon the concepts of measurement and the putative objectivity of a disinterested science.
Dr. Patrice Milewski
Laurentian University
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This page is a summary of: The scientisation of schooling in Ontario, 1910–1934, Paedagogica Historica, December 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00309230903202241.
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