History of Education and the Struggle for Intellectual Liberation in Post-Soviet Baltic Space after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Autor/in	Kestere, Iveta
Titel	History of Education and the Struggle for Intellectual Liberation in Post-Soviet Baltic Space after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 50 (2014) 6, S.844-851 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2014.948010
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Social Systems; Social Change; Foreign Countries; Social Scientists; Historians; International Education; Educational Theories; Access to Information; Research Methodology; Latvia; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Social system; Soziales System; Sozialer Wandel; Ausland; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; Historian; Historiker; Internationale Erziehung; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Lettland
Abstract	This study on a "new" history of education is written from the perspective of a participant in the process of discarding Soviet intellectual and physical boundaries. The fall of the Berlin Wall has, over the past two decades, become a continuous process in post-Soviet societies, when the now liberated historians of education were faced with a new challenge, namely integration into the newly opened world. The only allowed theory, Marxism-Leninism, reduced historians of education to superficial methodology and its trivialisation. However, the collapse of the USSR did not immediately result in new theoretical concepts, because historians were busy discovering fresh facts in newly accessed archives and libraries. Soon, topics on the history of education were being addressed by social scientists, who had succeeded in learning the latest theories, enabling them to present historic material to the general public in a global context. "Acts-and-facts history" slowly lost its place in university courses. Similar to the Revisionists of the 1960s in the West, today historians of education in the Baltics look to the common narratives and borrow theories from the social sciences. Current research in Latvia focuses on the Soviet legacy, internationalisation of education and the stories of those "whose voices have not yet been heard". (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10