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Klass i begåvningsreservens tidevarv : Taxonomiska konflikter inom och genom svensk utbildningsforskning, ca 1945–1960

Smedberg, Carl-Filip LU (2021) In Nordic Journal of Educational History 8(1). p.59-79
Abstract

This article studies conceptualisations of social class in Swedish education research, c. 1945–1960. The article follows knowledge produced about talent and class in state commissions and in the newly expanded social sciences, and how it in turn was interpreted and used in political debates and in the media. I show that the taxonomy of the population in social groups (Socialgrupper) was key for conceptualising notions of talent and framing education policy, beginning with debates around”the pool of talent” (Begåvningsreserven) in 1948. At the same time as becoming a standard tool for mapping social difference in Sweden, the social group taxonomy was criticised for being unscientific.

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Class in the age of the pool of talent : Taxonomic struggles in and through Swedish education research, c. 1945–1960
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keywords
History of the education sciences [utbildningsvetenskapernas historia], Post-war Sweden [efterkrigstidens Sverige], Social class [samhällsklass], Social group [socialgrupp]
in
Nordic Journal of Educational History
volume
8
issue
1
pages
21 pages
publisher
University of UMEA
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  • scopus:85118406597
ISSN
2001-7766
DOI
10.36368/NJEDH.V8I1.208
language
Swedish
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no
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Publisher Copyright: © Carl-Filip Smedberg. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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  series       = {{Nordic Journal of Educational History}},
  title        = {{Klass i begåvningsreservens tidevarv : Taxonomiska konflikter inom och genom svensk utbildningsforskning, ca 1945–1960}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.36368/NJEDH.V8I1.208}},
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