Two seminars by Iveta Silova on Thursday 13th December 2012 - Seminar 1: Literacies of (post)socialist childhood: Alternative readings of socialist upbringing and neoliberal regimes
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Kazakhstan Programme Research Team and the Faculty of
Education were delighted to welcome Iveta Silova to Cambridge with a short research visit, during which she delivered two seminars and had individual meetings with PhD students and staff. Iveta Silova is an Associate Professor and Director of Comparative and International Education program at the College of Education, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding post-socialist education transformation processes in the context of globalization, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private tutoring in a cross-national perspective. Iveta is the co-editor (with Noah W. Sobe) of a quarterly peer-reviewed journal *"European Education: Issues and Studies.". * Iveta’s recent books include: *- Globalization on the Margins* *(2011)* *- Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative education (2010)* *- How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia* *(2008 *coedited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi), *- From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia* *(2006)* |
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| Created: | 2013-01-28 15:45 | ||
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| Collection: | Kazakhstan programme open seminar series | ||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Faculty of Education | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | education reform; globalisation; neoliberal regimes; post-socialist childhood; Central Asia; Iveta Silova; | ||
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| Abstract: | *Seminar 1: Literacies of (post)socialist childhood: Alternative readings
of socialist upbringing and neoliberal regimes* In this paper (co-authored with *Michael A. Mead*) our goal is contribute to this emerging scholarship on pluralities of post-socialist transformations by further problematizing the concepts of “socialist” and “post-socialist” education in the context of broader debates about (neo)liberal globalization. By positing the discursive construction of children as a pivotal point for comparative analysis, our study traces disjunctions and continuities embedded in educational discourses of childhood in the “transition” from the Soviet to post-Soviet period. To accomplish this, we analyze educational (and thus cultural and political) texts that are likely to be overlooked or even actively ignored as inconsequential – first grade literacy primers (*bukvari *). Using the Foucault-inspired theoretical framework developed by such scholars as Ailwood (2004), Dean (2010), Popkewitz (2008), and Rose (1999), we examine ways in which the early grades’ textbooks, published in both the Soviet period and the post-Soviet period in Latvia and Ukraine, construct particular discourses about the child and childhood – what we call *literacies of childhood *here – delineating who the child is and should be, and positing how childhood is conceptualized in terms of space and time. |
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