# Pedology **Domain:** Education / Developmental Science / Soviet History **Doc Type:** Field Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Psychometrics]], [[Soviet Pedology Ban]], [[Pavel Blonsky]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## 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]]