Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System

Autor/inn/en	Griffiths, Tom G.; Charon Cardona, Euridice
Titel	Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System
Quelle	In: European Education, 47 (2015) 3, S.226-241 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-4934
DOI	10.1080/10564934.2015.1065390
Schlagwörter	Social Change; Social Systems; Educational History; International Education; Higher Education; Archives; Educational Research; Developing Nations; Foreign Students; Program Descriptions; Human Capital; World Views; Foreign Policy; Access to Education; Educational Finance; Economic Development; Foreign Countries; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Social system; Soziales System; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Internationale Erziehung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Archivwesen; Archiv; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Humankapital; World view; Weltanschauung; Außenpolitik; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsfonds; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Ausland
Abstract	International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world--the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and contextualize characteristic features of the Soviet education aid program. Specifically, we identify its focus on students from "developing" and newly independent countries, and its ambition to form graduates who would return home to become national leaders sympathetic to Soviet socialism. We conclude by approaching the program from a world-systems perspective. Here, we highlight the intended catch-up style modernization and national economic development for countries through their participation in the Soviet university aid program as well as the intended development of the human capital of participant countries. The complex impacts on participants throughout the world and their subsequent worldview are the subject of ongoing research by the authors. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01