Children, Childhoods and Kindergartens in Communist Czechoslovakia: Untold Narratives of the Early Years

Autor/in	Tesar, Marek
Titel	Children, Childhoods and Kindergartens in Communist Czechoslovakia: Untold Narratives of the Early Years
Quelle	In: Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 38 (2018) 2, S.212-226 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tesar, Marek)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-5146
DOI	10.1080/09575146.2018.1450850
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Systems; Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten; Ideology; Governance; Politics of Education; Child Development; Childrens Literature; Educational History; Czechoslovakia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social system; Soziales System; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ideologie; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Kindesentwicklung; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Tschechoslowakei
Abstract	There is a complexity to the early years and childhoods in communist Czechoslovakia. On the surface, childhoods and early years education can be perceived as homogenous and monolithic. However, close examination reveals not only a multiplicity of childhoods, but also cracks in the ideological governance that positions these childhoods as happy and political, and in the early years centres as spaces of education, care and preparation of children for future ideological productivity to serve the system. In this sense, the 'socialist child' was a young citizen identified with the ideals of communism/socialism. This article focuses on the formation of childhoods and the production of child subjects in Czechoslovakia under communist governance. The analysis looks particularly at how early years institutions were perceived through the lens of children's literature, and how through the archival documents and magazines distributed for and about children in kindergarten, a particular image of a 'socialist child' was conceptualised in early years centres. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01