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Humanizing education in the Soviet Union: A plea for caution in these postmodern times

✍ Scribed by Wendy Kohli


Publisher
Springer
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
894 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0039-3746

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✦ Synopsis


In this article, the author problematizes the process of "humanizing education" in the era of perestroika and glasnost. Identifying herself as a "democratic socialist," Kohli invites her Soviet colleagues to acknowledge the criticisms of liberal capitalism before they move headlong in that direction. In deconstructing such taken-forgranted concepts as individualism, democracy, market economy, and community, Kohli suggests that both the West and the East could benefit from re-visiting their respective revolutionary traditions at this crucial historical time.