Russian peasant schools : officialdom, village culture, and popular pedagogy, 1861–1914 / Ben Eklof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eklof, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Rural--Russia--History.

Education, Rural.

Peasants--Education--Russia--History.

Peasants.

Villages--Soviet Union--History.

Villages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 652 pages.) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1986]

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I INSTITUTIONS AND SPONSORS

1. Russian Schools Before the Great Reforms

2. The Great Reforms and the Zemstvos

3. Who Built the Schools?

4. Intervention

5. Control of the Schools

6. Wretched Imitations?

PART II THE OUTSIDER IN THE VILLAGE: RUSSIAN TEACHERS

7. Mere Craftsmen

8. Teachers in Village Society

PART III PEASANT PEDAGOGY AND THE EMERGENCE OF A SCHOOL SYSTEM

9. Peasant Pedagogy

10. The Expansion of Schooling

11. The School Calendar

12. Child Labor and the Schools

PART IV THE RESULTS OF SCHOOLING

13. Mere Learning

14. Hidden Curriculum

15. Beyond Primary School

Conclusion

Appendix A: Instruction in Russian Primary Schools

1. 1897 Model Program

2. Time Allocation by Subject

Appendix B: Structure of the Russian School System

1. Varieties of Primary Education

2. The Russian School System in 1914

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

9780520344983 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1407317381