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题名/责任者:

Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States / Rebecca Onion

出版发行项:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2016

ISBN:

9781469629469 :

ISBN:

1469629461

ISBN:

9781469629476

ISBN:

146962947X

载体形态项:

xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

丛编说明:

Studies in United States culture

丛编统一题名:

Studies in United States culture

个人责任者:

Onion, Rebecca, author

论题主题:

Science-Social aspects-United States

论题主题:

Science projects-Social aspects-United States

论题主题:

Science-Study and teaching-United States

中图法分类号:

N05

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-221) and index

内容附注:

Introduction: A curious century -- 1. Wonder house : the Brooklyn Children's Museum as beautiful dream -- 2. Science in the basement : selling the home lab in the interwar years -- 3. Embryo scientists : finding and saving postwar "science talent" -- 4. Space cadets and rocket boys : policing the masculinity of scientific enthusiasms -- 5. The Exploratorium and the persistence of innocent science -- Conclusion: Looking closer at "kids are little scientists"

摘要附注:

From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their children to live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthful curiosity as inseparable ideals. In this multifaceted work, historian Rebecca Onion examines the rise of informal children's science education in the twentieth century, from the proliferation of home chemistry sets after World War I to the century-long boom in child-centered science museums. Onion looks at how the United States has increasingly focused its energies over the last century into producing young scientists outside of the classroom. She shows that although Americans profess to believe that success in the sciences is synonymous with good citizenship, this idea is deeply complicated in an era when scientific data is hotly contested and many Americans have a conflicted view of science itself. These contradictions, Onion explains, can be understood by examining the histories of popular science and the development of ideas about American childhood. She shows how the idealized concept of "science" has moved through the public consciousness and how the drive to make child scientists has deeply influenced American culture. -- Provided by publisher

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