# Pedology
**Domain:** Education / Developmental Science / Soviet History
**Doc Type:** Field Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Psychometrics]], [[Soviet Pedology Ban]], [[Pavel Blonsky]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]
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## Definition
An interdisciplinary early-twentieth-century study of child development combining psychology, education, biology and measurement.
## Kybernetiks Context
The Soviet state’s 1936 suppression of pedology removed a measurement regime whose records of individual difference conflicted with its preferred account of human plasticity.
## Backlinks
[[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]