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1 online resource |
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Remembering Childhoods, Rewriting (Post)Socialist Lives; Decentering Dominant Narratives About Childhood; Working with Childhood Memories and Writing Life; A Glimpse into the Memories of Socialist Childhoods and Schooling; References; Memories in Dialogue: Transnational Stories About Socialist Childhoods; (Post)Socialist Life Narratives in Critical Context; Panda Bear Pens: Remembrance of a Romanian Pioneer's Things Past (by Ioana Luca) |
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Squirrels and Gas Masks: Navigating the Swampy Ideological Terrain of Late Socialism in Hungary (by Helga Lenart-Cheng)Co-witnessing (or With-nessing): A Temporary Conclusion; References; A Dulled Mind in an Active Body: Growing Up as a Girl in Normalization Czechoslovakia; Conclusion; References; On the Edge of Two Zones: Slovak Socialist Childhoods; The Nature of the Slovak Milieu in Czechoslovakia; Methodological Approach: Actors and Frameworks; Ivica from the 'Second Zone'; The Ontogenesis of a Pioneer; Moments of Physical Ontogenesis; Stolen Rituals; Concluding Thoughts; References |
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Growing Up as Vicar's Daughter in Communist Czechoslovakia: Politics, Religion, and Childhood Agency ExaminedTools and Methods; On Decisions and Consequences (Commentary); On Dangers of the Periphery (Commentary); References; Uncle Ho's Good Children Award and State Power at a Socialist School in Vietnam; Methods; Vietnamese Economy and the Socialist School System in the 1980s; Uncle Ho's Good Children (Cháu ngoan Bác Hồ) Award; "Small Plan" (Kế hoạch nhỏ)-National Versus Personal Interests; Cultural Knowledge, National Awareness, and Social Control |
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A Memorable Childhood and a Proud IdentityReferences; Tito's Last Pioneers and the Politicization of Schooling in Yugoslavia; Nearing the Precipice: School Days Between 1987 and 1990; Becoming a Tito's Pioneer; In the Classroom; The Fall: School Days Between 1991 and 1995; Conclusion; References; Hair Bows and Uniforms: Entangled Politics in Children's Everyday Lives; Creating Memory Stories of Our Childhoods: Context and Methodological Approach; The "P"/"p"olitics of School Uniforms and Bows; "What Would You Have Without a Bow? Just the Head!": Bows and Appearances |
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Bows and the Rituals of Transition Between SpacesConclusion; References; Interrupted Trajectory: The Experiences of Disability and Homeschooling in Post-Soviet Russia; Disability and Autoethnography; Education System for Children with Disabilities in Post-Socialist Russia; Homeschooling; Negotiating Access; Overcoming Disability; Passing in the Context of Internalized Ableism; Caring Space Through Interactions with the Teachers; Interaction with Peers; Conclusion; References; Teaching It Straight: Sexuality Education Across Post-State-Socialist Contexts |
| Summary |
This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain - spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia - the book offers insights into the diverse spaces of socialist childhoods interweaving with broader political, economic, and social life. These evocative memories explore the experiences of children in navigating state expectations to embody "model socialist citizens" and their mixed feelings of attachment, optimism, dullness, and alienation associated with participation in "building" socialist futures. Drawing on the research traditions of autobiography, autoethnography, and collective biography, the authors challenge what is often considered 'normal' and 'natural' in the historical accounts of socialist childhoods, and engage in (re)writing histories that open space for new knowledges and vast webs of interconnections to emerge. This book will be compelling reading for students and researchers working in education, sociology and history, particularly those within the interdisciplinary fields of childhood and area studies.'The authors of this beautiful book are professional academics and intellectuals who grew up in different socialist countries. Exploring "socialist childhoods" in myriad ways, they draw on memories, and collective history, emotional insider knowledge and the measured perspective of an analyst. What emerges is life that was caught between real optimism and dullness, ethical commitments and ideological absurdities, selfless devotion to children and their treatment as a political resource. Such attention to detail and examination of the paradoxical nature of this time makes this collective effort not only timely but remarkably genuine.' --Alexei Yurchak, University of California, USA |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Educational change -- Former communist countries
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Socialism and education.
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Children and politics.
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Education and state.
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Educational sociology.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Children and politics
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Education and state
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Educational change
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Educational sociology
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Socialism and education
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Former communist countries
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Silova, Iveta, editor.
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Piattoeva, Nelli, editor
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Millei, Zsuzsa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783319627915 |
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3319627910 |
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3319627902 |
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9783319627908 |
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