Classroom and empire : schooling the eastern nationalities and the dilemmas of Russian nationalism, 1861-1914 / Wayne Dowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowler, Wayne, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Asiatic Russia--History--19th century.

Education.

Education--Asiatic Russia--History--20th century.

Nationalism and education--Asiatic Russia.

Nationalism and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The central challenge to imperial powers entering the modern era was the schooling of their peoples. How could they insure the literacy that modernity required without providing a foundation for nationalism among the colonized? In Russia's eastern empire in the late nineteenth century, Orthodox Christianity vied with Islam for people's souls; Russian language competed with Tatar and local vernaculars in market squares, peasant cottages, and schoolrooms; Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets clashed in school textbooks; and western secularism undermined traditional religious authority among both Muslim and Orthodox faithful. Russian nationalism peaked in the early twentieth century and public support for policies of the russification of non-Russian minorities increased. The inevitable clash with local languages shook the stability of the empire. Classroom and Empire tells the story of the politics of alphabets, languages, and schooling in the eastern empire of Russia from 1860 to 1917. Wayne Dowler presents an intriguing cast of characters, including Nikolai Il'minskii, whose method of schooling non-Russian children lay at the heart of nationalist controversy; Ismail Bey Gaspirali, whose new method schools attempted to reconcile Islam with modern secular philosophy and science; Konstantin Pobedonostsev, procurator of the Holy Synod and eminence grise of the reigns of Alexander III and his son Nicholas II; and Sophia Chicherina, feisty defender of the Il'minskii school.

Contents:

Contents Acknowledgments Preface Tables Introduction 1 Conversion and Apostasy 2 The Il'minskii Method 3 The 1870 Regulations on Schooling the Eastern Nationalities 4 Schooling Baptised Non- Russians and Pagans 5 Schooling Muslims 6 The Crisis in Non-Russian Schooling 7 The Il'minskii Method Reaffirmed 8 Pedagogy and Politics 9 The Non-Russian School and the Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85889-0

9786612858895

0-7735-6872-7

OCLC:

180773092