This paper investigates the issues of students' ability to learn and the necessity for educational knowledge from 1957 to 1969, using the specific example of English teaching. With a special focus on discourse in the movement of the Japan Teachers...
This paper probes teachers'images of intelligence and ability in the 1950s, with its main focus on discourses that were related to intelligence tests in the movement of Japan Teachers'Union (JTU). The paper suggests that intelligence tests functio...