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- Title
Vospitanie and regime change: Teacher-education textbooks in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine.
- Authors
Bogachenko, Tatiana; Perry, Laura
- Abstract
This article examines the pedagogical dimension of vospitanie, or character formation, in communist and post-communist education. It explores how vospitanie is conceptualized in two teacher-education textbooks-one from each period-in Ukraine, a post-Soviet country. Comparative analysis shows how conceptualizations of vospitanie have evolved over time and across political regimes. Instruction on vospitanie for future teachers has a comprehensive structure based on the two 'pillars' of labour and the collective, with an increasing focus on democracy and humanism in the post-communist era. Even though regime change and ideological shifts led to some modifications in the conceptualization of vospitanie, this article recommends a more decentralized approach and practical instructions for teachers to ensure the concept's relevance in post-Soviet society. It also suggests that educators today could explore-and implement-some of the ideas developed in the Soviet period to improve character education within Ukraine and in other national contexts.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; TEXTBOOKS; TEACHER education research; EDUCATIONAL change research; EDUCATION; HIGHER education
- Publication
Prospects (00331538), 2015, Vol 45, Issue 4, p549
- ISSN
0033-1538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11125-015-9370-1