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Education Management as an Exact Science (Russia, First Half of the Nineteenth Century)

Publication date: 06.02.2019

Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, 2018, Volume 63, Issue 4, pp. 93 - 114

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.18.028.9519

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Elena Vishlenkova
National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow
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Education Management as an Exact Science (Russia, First Half of the Nineteenth Century)

Abstract

The author reveals an essence of bureaucratic knowledge by means of which the nature of educational management (of schools and universities) in the Russian Empire in the 1830s was changed. The article shows the difference between bureaucratic and scientific knowledge. The author proves that the organization of regular and universal data collection (in the form of reports and references) has created a system of collective responsibility, general employment, vertical circulation of information. At the same time, the content of the created knowledge did not influence the decisions of the Ministry of Public Education. Disciplinary and representative aspects of this practice – humility of professors and teachers participating in it, timely implementation of the instructions coming from above, the consistency shown in tables and the text of digital indicators were much more important for bureaucrats. Collected data were used by the Ministry to showcase the efficiency of control it exercised.

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Information: Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, 2018, Volume 63, Issue 4, pp. 93 - 114

Article type: Original article

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Education Management as an Exact Science (Russia, First Half of the Nineteenth Century)

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9471-0091

Elena Vishlenkova
National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow

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