Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Countries

STEPHEN WEBBER is Lecturer in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of School, Reform and Society in the New Russia and a number of other publications on aspects of the Russian education system. - ILKKA LIIKANEN works as a Researcher in Comparative Historical Sociology at the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland. He is the author and co-editor of basic Finnish language textbooks on nation-building and political mobilization in Finland and is co-editor (with H.Eskelinen and J.Oksa of Curtains of Iron from Gold, a volume on changing European borders.

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• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Webber & I.Liikanen PART I: REVIVING CIVIC CULTURE Reflections on Social Networks and Collective Action in Russia; R.Alapuro Educational and Political Capital and the Breakthrough of Voluntary Association in Russian Karelia; I.Liikanen The Intelligentsia and the 'Breakdown of Culture' in Post-Soviet Russia; P.Stranius PART II: NATIONALITY REFRAMED National Schools and National Identity In and After the Soviet Union; J.Smith Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Education System: Before and After Transition (1945-1997); D.Canek New Paradigms of National Education in Multi-Ethnic Russia; G.Schmidt PART III: IDENTITY MATTERS Ethnographical Activism as a Form of Civic Education: A Case Study on School Museums in North-West Russia; K.Heikkinen Gender Representation in Educational Materials in the Period of Transition in Hungary; E.Thun Gender Study and Civic Culture in Contemporary Russia; A.Temkina Hypocritical Sexuality of the Late Soviet Period: Sexual Knowledge and Sexual Ignorance; E.Zdravomyslova The Struggle for the Souls of Young People: Competing Approaches to 'Spiritual' and Religious Education in Russia Today; J.Muckle PART IV: TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE? The Abandoned Children of Russia: From 'Privileged Class' to 'Underclass'; S.Stephenson Psychological Development Programmes for Civil Society Building; D.Javakhishvili & N.Sarjveladze The Culture of the Russian School and the Teaching Profession: Prospects for Change; S.Webber Pedagogy in Transition: From Labour Training to Humanistic Technology Education in Russia; J.Pitt & M.Pavlova Political Aspects of Reforming the Higher Education System in Ukraine; L.Pivneva Civic Education for Russia: An Outsider's View; J.Vaillant Index