Feeling and the New Man: The Emotional Component of Soviet Education (1936-1940)
| Dates: | 6 March 2014 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, University staff |
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| Speaker: | Ms Olga Malinovskaya |
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Part of the seminar series
YOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY
As contemporary normative material such as Pravda directives, school programmes, and methodological instructions for teachers makes clear, the emotional education of children in secondary schools under Stalin was an important constituent part of the education policy. Held up as ‘the norms of polite behaviour’, enthusiasm and exultation were thrust upon Soviet adults, whether they liked it or not, being omnipresent in popular music, film, radio programmes, as well as state-sponsored social undertaking, parades, activities at palaces of culture. But children were an easier prey and, hand in hand with the ubiquitous zeitgeist, the ‘education of feelings’ in classrooms facilitated the formation of the right feelings and the normal intensity of feeling. I seek to establish the impact of the "emotional education" they received on children's world view and affective relationships, and the extent to which the educational principles endured in their later lives.
Speaker
Ms Olga Malinovskaya
Organisation: University of Oxford
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