Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Countries - (Studies in Russia and East Europe) by S Webber & I Liikanen (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The vivid discussion on civil society in Eastern Europe that flourished during the late 1980s and early 1990s has faded somewhat, and been partly replaced by new attempts to conceptualise the nature of social change taking place in these countries. This book strives to continue and go beyond the civil society discourse by analysing the interrelationship between education and civic culture in post-communist countries. The volume offers detailed case studies, written by specialists from the region and from Western Europe and North America, examining everyday patterns of civic culture; the linkage between education and national identity, ethnicity, gender and religion; the experience and attitudes of youth; and attempts to render education systems better suited to the demands of post-communist society.

Review Quotes

'...the quality is often excellent, and the editors manage to draw together threads, making a convincing argument...' - Anne White, Russian Review

About the Author

RISTO ALAPURO Professor of Sociology, University of Helsinki DAVID CANEK Postgraduate Student, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic DAREJAN JAVAKHISHVILI Clinical Psychologist, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Georgia KAIJA HEIKKINEN Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland JAMES MUCKLE Former Senior Lecturer in Education, and Special Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Nottingham, England MARGARITA PAVLOVA Research Fellow, Latrobe University, Melbourne JAMES PITT Visiting Fellow, Department of Educational Studies, University of York, England LIUBOV PIVNEVA Professor, Department of Sociology and Politics, Skovoroda Kharkov Teacher-Training University, Ukraine NATALIE SARJVELADZE Psychologist, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Georgia GERLIND SCHMIDT Research Fellow, German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt am Main JEREMY SMITH Lecturer, Twentieth-Century Russian History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham SVETLANA STEPHENSON Research Fellow, European Social Policy, University of Luton, England PENTTI STRANIUS Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland ANNA TEMKINA Lecturer, Sociology and Gender Study, European University, St Petersburg, Russia EVA THUN Senior Lecturer, Language Teaching Methodology and Women's Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary JANET G. VAILLANT Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, USA ELENA ZDRAVOMYSLOVA Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg.