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Direct linkBeauvais, Clementine – History of Education, 2016
This paper explores the trend, between 1905 and the late 1920s in UK and US child psychology, of "discovering," labelling and calculating different "ages" in children. Those new "ages"--from mental to emotional, social, anatomical ages, and more--were understood as either replacing, or meaningfully related to,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Child Psychology, Child Development, Intelligence Tests
Millei, Zsuzsa; Joronen, Mikko – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
At the present, human capital theory (HCT) and neuroscience reasoning are dominant frameworks in early childhood education and care (ECEC) worldwide. Popular since the 1960s, HCT has provided an economic understanding of human beings and offered strategies to manage the population with the promise of bringing improvements to nations. Neuroscience…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Human Capital, Early Childhood Education, Neoliberalism
