Article ID: CBB567097528

Evaluating the Aboriginal child’s mind: assimilation and cross-cultural psychology in Australia (2018)

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This article examines two psychological interventions with Australian Aboriginal children in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The first involved evaluating the cognitive maturation of Aboriginal adolescents using a series of Piagetian interviews. The second, a more extensive educational intervention, used a variety of quantitative tests to measure and intervene in the intellectual performance of Aboriginal preschoolers. In both of these interventions the viability of the psychological instruments in the cross-cultural encounter created ongoing ambiguity as to the value of the research outcomes. Ultimately, the resolution of this ambiguity in favour of notions of Aboriginal ‘cultural deprivation’ reflected the broader political context of debates over Aboriginal self-governance during this period.

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Warwick H.
Balltondre, Mónica
Boivin, Jérôme
Bullard, Alice
Carson, John S.
Douglas, Bronwen
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Canadian Historical Review
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
University of California, Santa Cruz
Duke University Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of North Carolina Press
Duquesne University
Concepts
Science and race
Psychology
Intelligence tests
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Children
People
Terman, Lewis Madison
Baudin, Nicolas
Birdsell, Joseph B.
Collomb, Henri
Cox Miles, Catharine
Fanon, Frantz
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Australia
United States
Brazil
Taiwan
California (U.S.)
Canada
Institutions
Stanford University
University of Toronto
Genetics Society of America
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