Reference : Forging Harmony in the Social Organism: Industry and the Power of Psychometric Techniques
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Education & instruction
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/16616
Forging Harmony in the Social Organism: Industry and the Power of Psychometric Techniques
English
Herman, Frederik mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
2014
History of Education
Routledge
43
5
592-614
Yes
International
0046-760X
[en] vocational training ; professional orientation ; industry ; psychophysiology ; pedology ; test equipment
[en] This article analyses the initiating role of the steel industry in educational
selection by means of psychometric techniques used in the psycho-physiological
laboratory associated with a vocational school in Luxembourg founded in 1914.
It first considers the origins of, and initial meanings bestowed upon, this first
(and perhaps also last) Luxembourg Laboratory of Psychophysiology. Second, it
investigates whether and, if so, to what extent psychometric techniques developed
in this laboratory for vocational orientation were used strategically to foster
an ethic of individual harmony by means of objectified observation and categorisation
of the aptitude. What hidden agendas underpinned the industry’s rhetoric
regarding the rebirth of the individual and the empowerment of personal vocation
through science-oriented processes like quantification, measurement and
rational assessment? Did such rhetoric legitimise the industry’s self-image as a
privileged force in structuring the social fabric as well as individual lives?
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Researchers ; Professionals
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/16616

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