Sevan G Terzian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sevan G Terzian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sevan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Terzian |
| SIGNATURE | TERZIAN S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6569-4096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antero Garcia, All through the Town
Deprived and disadvantaged”
In 1972, the United States Office of Education (USOE) released a lengthy and unprecedented report about gifted education in response to a Congressional mandate. Both Congress and the USOE lamented the inadequate state of gifted programmes in American schools and urged that gifted education should become a greater national priority. In this essay, we argue that the federal government revived human capital and national security concerns in claiming…
Subtle, vicious effects”
This essay examines the first detailed study of gifted African American youth: Lillian Steele Proctor's master's thesis from the late 1920s on Black children in Washington, DC. Unlike formative research on gifted children by educational psychologists, Proctor's investigation emphasized children's experiences at school, home, and community in determining their abilities, opportunities, and accomplishments. Proctor's work also anticipated African A…
Christopher J. Phillips. The New Math
This book examines the political dimensions of a widely recognized, but largely misunderstood, curricular reform initiative in the U.S. Christopher J. Phillips deftly explores how and why a series of federally sponsored “new math” programs aimed to cultivate a kind of intellectual discipline that would foster good citizenship by “fundamentally reform[ing] the way Americans thought about mathematics” (1–2). In particular, he uncovers why the mathe…
American Education in Popular Media
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of
Corporate science education
This study examines a largely neglected aspect of the history of science popularization in the United States: corporate depictions of the value of science to society. It delineates the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s portrayals of science to its shareholders, employees and consumers, and schoolchildren and educators during World War Two and the postwar era. Annual reports to shareholders, in-house news publications, publicity records, adverti…
Adventures in science”
From 1942 to 1958, a national weekly programme on CBS radio and presented by Science Service, Inc. devoted 37 of its broadcasts to profiling American high school students’ achievements in science talent searches, clubs and fairs. These “Adventures in Science” radio programmes cast scientifically talented youth as potential contributors to national goals in the hopes of eliciting greater public appreciation of science and science education. This c…
Scrambled eggheads
The American public's longstanding preference for intelligence over intellect informed ambivalent portrayals of American scientists in the postwar era. This essay considers how six popular Hollywood films from a largely neglected genre—comedy—projected ambivalent images of scientists from 1961 to 1965. It argues that scientists were often respected for their intelligence, but were mocked or even feared for their intellect. In the comedic subgenre…
That’s When We Became a Nation”
This study investigates how high-achieving Latino adolescents at an urban high school designate significance to events, people, and documents in American history. Survey and interview data of 70 high school students and their advanced placement history teacher document how students attach their own meanings to the history of the nation and employ concepts of freedom and unity as criteria for attributing significance. Unlike other ethnic minority …
Unity, Diversity, and Democracy in American Public Schools
Science World , High School Girls, and the Prospect of Scientific Careers, 1957–1963
A host of scholars have illuminated the ways in which schools and other institutions have created and then sustained a vast gender gap in the scientific professions. Many of these studies have focused on overt discrimination: deliberate efforts by men to prevent the entry of women into scientific pursuits. Others have identified subtle and culturally mediated processes that have often led girls away from scientific courses and careers. This artic…
Federal precedents and the origins of the charter school movement in Florida, USA, 1981–1996
After four years of failed attempts, lawmakers in the State of Florida sanctioned charter schools in 1996. This paper traces the political origins of the charter school movement in Florida and the USA as a whole. Examining legislation and reforms at the federal level, as well as state legislative proceedings, this paper identifies key political precedents. Nationally, the privatisation initiatives of the federal government created a climate condu…
The Public School as Battleground and Facilitator of Democracy
(2003). The Public School as Battleground and Facilitator of Democracy. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 132-136
That’s When We Became a Nation”
This study investigates how high-achieving Latino adolescents at an urban high school designate significance to events, people, and documents in American history. Survey and interview data of 70 high school students and their advanced placement history teacher document how students attach their own meanings to the history of the nation and employ concepts of freedom and unity as criteria for attributing significance. Unlike other ethnic minority …
Science World , High School Girls, and the Prospect of Scientific Careers, 1957–1963
A host of scholars have illuminated the ways in which schools and other institutions have created and then sustained a vast gender gap in the scientific professions. Many of these studies have focused on overt discrimination: deliberate efforts by men to prevent the entry of women into scientific pursuits. Others have identified subtle and culturally mediated processes that have often led girls away from scientific courses and careers. This artic…
Federal precedents and the origins of the charter school movement in Florida, USA, 1981–1996
After four years of failed attempts, lawmakers in the State of Florida sanctioned charter schools in 1996. This paper traces the political origins of the charter school movement in Florida and the USA as a whole. Examining legislation and reforms at the federal level, as well as state legislative proceedings, this paper identifies key political precedents. Nationally, the privatisation initiatives of the federal government created a climate condu…
The Public School as Battleground and Facilitator of Democracy
(2003). The Public School as Battleground and Facilitator of Democracy. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 132-136
Federal precedents and the origins of the charter school movement in Florida, USA, 1981–1996
After four years of failed attempts, lawmakers in the State of Florida sanctioned charter schools in 1996. This paper traces the political origins of the charter school movement in Florida and the USA as a whole. Examining legislation and reforms at the federal level, as well as state legislative proceedings, this paper identifies key political precedents. Nationally, the privatisation initiatives of the federal government created a climate condu…
Unity, Diversity, and Democracy in American Public Schools
Science World , High School Girls, and the Prospect of Scientific Careers, 1957–1963
A host of scholars have illuminated the ways in which schools and other institutions have created and then sustained a vast gender gap in the scientific professions. Many of these studies have focused on overt discrimination: deliberate efforts by men to prevent the entry of women into scientific pursuits. Others have identified subtle and culturally mediated processes that have often led girls away from scientific courses and careers. This artic…
Scrambled eggheads
The American public's longstanding preference for intelligence over intellect informed ambivalent portrayals of American scientists in the postwar era. This essay considers how six popular Hollywood films from a largely neglected genre—comedy—projected ambivalent images of scientists from 1961 to 1965. It argues that scientists were often respected for their intelligence, but were mocked or even feared for their intellect. In the comedic subgenre…
That’s When We Became a Nation”
This study investigates how high-achieving Latino adolescents at an urban high school designate significance to events, people, and documents in American history. Survey and interview data of 70 high school students and their advanced placement history teacher document how students attach their own meanings to the history of the nation and employ concepts of freedom and unity as criteria for attributing significance. Unlike other ethnic minority …
Adventures in science”
From 1942 to 1958, a national weekly programme on CBS radio and presented by Science Service, Inc. devoted 37 of its broadcasts to profiling American high school students’ achievements in science talent searches, clubs and fairs. These “Adventures in Science” radio programmes cast scientifically talented youth as potential contributors to national goals in the hopes of eliciting greater public appreciation of science and science education. This c…
American Education in Popular Media
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of
Corporate science education
This study examines a largely neglected aspect of the history of science popularization in the United States: corporate depictions of the value of science to society. It delineates the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s portrayals of science to its shareholders, employees and consumers, and schoolchildren and educators during World War Two and the postwar era. Annual reports to shareholders, in-house news publications, publicity records, adverti…
Christopher J. Phillips. The New Math
This book examines the political dimensions of a widely recognized, but largely misunderstood, curricular reform initiative in the U.S. Christopher J. Phillips deftly explores how and why a series of federally sponsored “new math” programs aimed to cultivate a kind of intellectual discipline that would foster good citizenship by “fundamentally reform[ing] the way Americans thought about mathematics” (1–2). In particular, he uncovers why the mathe…
Subtle, vicious effects”
This essay examines the first detailed study of gifted African American youth: Lillian Steele Proctor's master's thesis from the late 1920s on Black children in Washington, DC. Unlike formative research on gifted children by educational psychologists, Proctor's investigation emphasized children's experiences at school, home, and community in determining their abilities, opportunities, and accomplishments. Proctor's work also anticipated African A…
Deprived and disadvantaged”
In 1972, the United States Office of Education (USOE) released a lengthy and unprecedented report about gifted education in response to a Congressional mandate. Both Congress and the USOE lamented the inadequate state of gifted programmes in American schools and urged that gifted education should become a greater national priority. In this essay, we argue that the federal government revived human capital and national security concerns in claiming…
Antero Garcia, All through the Town
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works)