caa a22 4500 463205804 CHVBK 20180405153125.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11191-006-9022-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11191-006-9022-1 Lynning Kristine History of Science Department, The Steno Institute, University of Aarhus, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark aut Portraying Science as Humanism - A Historical Case Study of Cultural Boundary Work from the Dawn of the ‘Atomic Age' [Elektronische Daten] [Kristine Lynning] In the late 1950s, when a new curriculum for the Danish upper secondary school was under construction, the reform debates on science were strongly concerned with the scarcity of technologically and scientifically educated labour, and thus relations between science, technology and welfare were stressed. Simultaneously however, the relationship between science and humanism was likewise emphasised and discussed. It is this latter issue that is the subject of analysis here. I argue that describing science as a form of humanism served a number of different purposes both within and without a narrow school context. It was far from clear what the practical consequences of this rhetorical figure was to be, although some attempts were made within the new curriculum plan to break down the boundaries between the sciences and the humanities. However, picturing science as humanism also served legitimising functions both with regards to the new science curriculum and with regards to a general political program of progress and welfare through support of science and education. Thus, the curriculum debates on science education were part of a much broader cultural and political debate in which the image of science was negotiated and transformed. Such curriculum debates can, I argue, be understood as cultural boundary work in Thomas Gieryn's sense. Springer, 2006 Curriculum reform nationallicence liberal education nationallicence history of science education nationallicence mid-twentieth century nationallicence humanism nationallicence Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/3-5(2007-03-01), 479-510 0926-7220 16:3-5<479 2007 16 11191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9022-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9022-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lynning Kristine History of Science Department, The Steno Institute, University of Aarhus, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/3-5(2007-03-01), 479-510 0926-7220 16:3-5<479 2007 16 11191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer