1st Edition
A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum What the Russian Child is Taught in School
A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (1988) surveys the syllabuses for schoolchildren in the Soviet education system following the reforms of 1984. Every subject in the common timetable is covered, and teaching methods, hopes for the future and continuing controversies are discussed. All this is set in the broader context of curriculum philosophy and of the social and moral purposes of Soviet education; the implicit or ‘hidden’ curriculum is also considered.
1. The Soviet School and the Russian Tradition 2. The Context of Education: What and Why 3. Vospitanie: Moral, Family and Civic Education In and Out of Class 4. Labour Education, the School and the World of Work 5. Mathematical Education and Information Science 6. The Mother Tongue: Russian as Native Language 7. Science Education 8. Arts Education 9. History and Social Studies 10. Geography 11. The Foreign Language 12. Physical Education and Elementary Military Training 13. Variations on the Main Theme 14. The Ethos of the School and the ‘Hidden’ Curriculum 15. The Directions of Change in the Soviet Curriculum Today
Biography
James Muckle
