Beschrijving

The book focuses on the processes of ideologisation, political instrumentalisation and sovietisation of educational science in Eastern and Central Europe following World War II. The authors reconstruct the tension between their own national educational tradition and the Soviet model of best practice in the former Eastern Bloc.

The book explores the ideologization, political instrumentalization and sovietization of educational sciences in Eastern and Central Europe following World War II, with a particular focus on the 1950s. Amid the revolutionary transformation of communist society and under Moscow’s influence, educational sciences were positioned as instruments for shaping the \