EDUC106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Natural Selection, Heredity, Superintelligence

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC106
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Overview: subjectivity, the rise of psychology, managing. Subjective experience way you experience the world, a social not a personal activity; incl. idea of narrative inquiry (seeks to engage with people"s engagement of the world), The rise of psychology: iq testing, eugenics, scientific management, psychometric testing. Iq: standardised test designed to assess human intelligence. Herbert spenser survival of the fittest" the fittest that survived. Gives us a different idea of the world history is discursive. Eugenics education society in britain, 1907 (later galton institute) Victoria, mental deficiency bills (1926, 1929, 1939) aimed to: Institutionalise & potentially sterilise: slum dwellers, homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics those with small heads and lows iqs (incl. Preferring the intellectually favoured" (eg those from europe) Groups precluded for training as teachers at armidale teachers college 1928: cripples, half-castes, orientals and temperamentally unsuitable candidates . Scientific management: frederick taylor, time & motion studies (1890-1901, applied to factories and offices but also. Australian council of educational research (acer) established 1930.