Description:
Builds on first-hand experiences of socialist and post-socialist conditions within schoolsHighlights the range of narratives within research on schools and schooling
Includes an international range of chapters which look beyond the typical debates on socialism
Review Quotes:
"There is an abundance of material in the book that offers itself for such further engagement, material that is evocative and inspiring, with the potential to incite similar (and follow-on) projects. If not for this reason alone, the sheer pleasure of indulging in personal accounts that are at the same time analytically reflected allow for the hope that this book might be widely read." (Robert Hamm, Other Education - The Journal of Educational Alternatives, Vol. 9 (2), 2020)
"This book should be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields, but particularly to historians of childhood, education specialists, and social scientists. ... the book makes a powerful argument against viewing (post) socialist life as a series of simple dichotomies or children in (post)socialist contexts as vessels passively filledby state institutions or ideologies, thus joining an increasing number of recent works that point out the insufficiencies of such frameworks for understanding what it meant to live (post)socialism." (Julie deGraffenried, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 12 (2), 2019)
"This book is bold in its vision and ambitious in its scope. Its appeal is manifold and rich. Theoretically, its appeal lies in its provocative decolonial lens of understanding childhood and (post)socialism and the concurrent challenges it brings to dominant concepts in comparative education." (Simona Szakacs, European Education, January, 17, 2019)