Abstract

This article concerns a special kind of educational knowledge which is neither practical nor academic or political – but all at the same time. The particular knowledge that is investigated is a co-produced knowledge about students and their performances in school during the 1940s. This knowledge was produced and spread by new social and discursive fields developed to both reflecting and making possible a new school organisation. It is argued that this knowledge while foremost supporting the Swedish reform towards a comprehensive school system in the 1940s, had loopi ng effects on academic theories and on educational practice.

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