The Resource Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States, Rebecca Onion
Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States, Rebecca Onion
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Contents
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- 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"
- Isbn
- 9781469629469
- Label
- Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States
- Title
- Innocent experiments
- Title remainder
- childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Onion
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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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- Onion, Rebecca
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- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q175.52.U6
- LC item number
- O55 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in United States culture
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- Science projects
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- Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States, Rebecca Onion
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-221) and index
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- 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"
- Control code
- 942745136
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469629469
- Lccn
- 2016009979
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)942745136
- Label
- Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States, Rebecca Onion
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-221) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- Contents
- 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"
- Control code
- 942745136
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469629469
- Lccn
- 2016009979
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)942745136
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