{"product_id":"separate-schools-gender-policy-and-practice-in-postwar-soviet-education-hardback-9780875804347","title":"Separate Schools; Gender, Policy, and Practice in Postwar Soviet Education (Hardback) 9780875804347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSeparate Schools\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Policy, and Practice in Postwar Soviet Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eE. Thomas Ewing (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875804347\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e418 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very important study of policy-making and popular political participation in the Soviet Union. Ewing reads well \"between the lines\" to note how the \"success\" of girls' schools revealed how girls had been shortchanged in coeducational settings, even though girls also expressed stronger opposition to separation than did boys.\u003c\/p\u003e - James Albisetti, University of Kentucky \u003cp\u003eRelying on an impressive range of original sources, Ewing's study is the first to examine the implementation of separate education in 1943, the growing opposition to it, and the reasons for a return to coeducation in 1954. \u003ci\u003eSeparate Schools\u003c\/i\u003e confronts multiple issues critical to an understanding of Soviet history as well as of education and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e - Larry E. Holmes, University of South Alabama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStarting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and girls' schools in cities across the Soviet Union.\u003c\/b\u003e The government sought to reinforce gender roles in a wartime context and to strengthen discipline and order by separating boys and girls into different classrooms. The program was a failure. Discipline further deteriorated in boys' schools, and despite intentions to keep the education equal, girls' schools experienced increased perceptions of academic inferiority, particularly in the subjects of math and science. The restoration of coeducation in 1954 demonstrated the power of public opinion, even in a dictatorship, to influence school policies. In the first full-length study of the program, Ewing examines this large-scale experiment across the full cycle of deliberating, advocating, implementing, experiencing, criticizing, and finally repudiating separate schools. Looking at the encounters of pupils in classrooms, policy objectives of communist leaders, and growing opposition to separate schools among teachers and parents, Ewing provides new insights into the last decade of Stalin's dictatorship. A comparative analysis of the Soviet case with recent efforts in the United States and elsewhere raises important questions. Based on extensive research that includes the archives of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, \u003ci\u003eSeparate Schools\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to historians of Russia, those interested in comparative education and educational history, and specialists in gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584753922328,"sku":"9780875804347","price":33.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/separate-schools-gender-policy-and-practice-in-postwar-soviet-education-hardback-9780875804347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}