Beschreibung:
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.
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