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History Textbooks as Social Contract: Educational Reform, the Unified History Textbooks and Patriotism in Contemporary Russia
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Yarlykova, Mariya; Xunda, Yu – Education and Society, 2021
This article examines uniform standardized history education in Russia. It focuses primarily on the process of designing unified national history textbooks in 2013-2017, and also examines the educational reform that followed this process, along with the role of Russian society in the formulation of the textbook's content. The new…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Educational Change, Patriotism
"With Tears upon Our Eyes?": Commemorations of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War in the School Practice in the Soviet Union and Russia
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Linchenko, Andrei; Golovashina, Oksana – Journal of Social Science Education, 2019
Purpose: This article is devoted to the description and comparative analysis of the commemorations of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War in the practice of Soviet and Russian school education, based on the example of the two regions of Central Russia (Tambov and Lipetsk region). The purpose of the article is to study the features of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holidays, World History, War
Is Academic Freedom Feasible in the Post-Soviet Space of Higher Education?
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Oleksiyenko, Anatoly V. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
The legacy of totalitarianism thwarts discourse and practice of academic freedom in post-Soviet universities. For legacy-holders, "academic freedom" causes disorientation, irresponsibility, demoralization and inequity. They see more threats than benefits from empowering decision-makers who are non-compliant with local bureaucracy. For…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, Decision Making, College Faculty