Naslov
Instructional Manuals of Boundary-Work: Psychology textbooks, student subjectivities, and disciplinary historiographies

Autori
Flis, Ivan

Izvornik
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (0022-5061) 52 (2016), 3; 258-278

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
History of Psychology ; Textbook History ; Psychology ; Science Pedagogy

Sažetak
This article aims to provide an overview of the historiography of psychology textbooks. In the overview, I identify and describe in detail two strands of writing histories of introductory textbooks of psychology and juxtapose them to provide an integrated historiography of textbooks in psychology. One strand is developed by teachers of psychology—first as a general approach for investigating textbooks in a pedagogical setting, and then later upgraded into a full history of psychology textbooks in America. The other strand follows a more familiar perspective of historians of science and historians of psychology who build on various post-Kuhnian and post-Foucauldian perspectives on textbooks. I make an argument for integrating these two views for a more comprehensive historiography of textbooks in psychology, recasting textbooks as objects of research and sources that are interesting sui generis for historians of psychology in their investigations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Filozofija, Povijest

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