This book covers the construction of international education research community in the 1950s-1990s, and the growth of its 'disembedded' laboratory i.e. networks, spaces, materiality, travelling, translations. The book follows a sociology of science theoretical framework in order to examine the research-archive of the Swedish internationally renowned educational scholar Torsten Husén (1916-2009). The archive reveals the shifting and heterogenous transnational networks that contribute to the development of social science research beyond fixed time and space dimensions, and that extends social science beyond individual ideas, researchers, environments, institutions and universities. These are practices that create, mobilise, sustain and challenge relations between actors in innovations, knowledge creation and various social activities. In other words, the archive represents the socio-material manifestation not only of the intellectual trajectory of a key education actor but the growing organisation of a whole scientific field at the time.

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1. Organising the Future of Educational Research in Post-war Europe and Beyond
2. Forming Transnational Networks: The Early 1950s in Europe
3. Collecting International Data: Husén and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
4. The Rise of a Global Expert Network: The International Institute for Educational Planning, 1963–1973
5. Education Futuramas: Torsten Husén and Futurological Thinking in Education
6. Editing the International Encyclopedia of Education, 1980–1994
7. Words for the World: Writing and Publishing Strategies for an International Book Market
Correction to: The Rise of a Global Expert Network: The International Institute for Educational Planning, 1963–1973
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