Article ID: CBB540266629

Cold War Social Science in Action: The Ford Foundation and Liberal Adult Education in the United States (1945-60) (2020)

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This paper scrutinises the Ford Foundation’s Fund for Adult Education from the perspective of Cold War social science. Its massive Experimental Discussion Project was an attempt at scientifically grounded social engineering in American communities in the field of liberal humanistic education. This civilisation-saving mission to foster critical democratic citizenship and world-understanding ran into aparadox of scientific social engineering and organic community growth, expertise, and planning versus lay leadership. Discussion groups opened up space for discussing politics during the McCarthy era, while its scientific evaluation was characteristic of the 1950s Culture Wars in its value neutrality and race-blindness.

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Authors & Contributors
Solovey, Mark
Rohde, Joy
Gnoinska, Margaret K.
Matten, Marc Andre
Adela Hîncu
Ravasi, Davide
Concepts
Cold War
Social sciences
Communism
Science and war; science and the military
Democracy
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
China
Soviet Union
South Asia
People's Republic of China
Romania
Institutions
Ford Foundation
Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau
Congress for Cultural Freedom
Special Operations Research Office
RAND Corporation
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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