Full Description
This book re-examines aspects of historical socialism, and includes case studies of education within twenty-first century socialist and post-socialist contexts shaped by the trajectories of historical socialism.
Through these case studies, contributions offer insights into key questions: How are education systems and student subjectivities shaped by post-socialist trajectories and current regional politics, economics and resistance movements? How do sedimented socialist discourses and geographies alter and contest the 'neoliberal child' and 'childhood' in post-socialist education? How have disjunctures between the rhetoric of historical Marxism-Leninism and the practices of educators, students and student political organizations played out under socialism, and what could we learn from that for our present? How much emancipatory potential is there in the theories and practices of (popular) education for combatting injustice in the absence of mass, revolutionary political parties?
Above all, this volume affirms the need to move beyond simplistic accounts of historical socialism and post-socialist transitions. By exploring how socialist trajectories remain influential and have potential in our current contexts, this book contributes to the work of politically engaged educators working to re-imagine and reconstruct education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.
Contents
1. Education in/for socialism: historical, current and future perspectives 2. Memory and kindergarten teachers' work: children's needs before the needs of the socialist state 3. Literacies of (post)socialist childhood: alternative readings of socialist upbringings and neoliberal futures 4. Socialist memoirs: the production of political childhood subjectivities 5. Popular education and the 'party line' 6. Ideological pluralism and revisionism in small (and micro) states: the erection of the Caribbean education policy space 7. Optimism reborn. Nicaragua's Participative Education Revolution, the Citizen Power development model and the construction of '21st century socialism' 8. Socialism and education in Cuba and Soviet Uzbekistan
