2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Document-based study of the Soviet history of education of the 1930s from the modernization view point

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21530783
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Hokkaido University
Principal Investigator	TOKORO Shinichi 北海道大学, 大学院・教育学研究院, 教授 (50133682)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	教育史
Research Abstract	This study has (1) used the unpublished documents of the research-institutes of education at the archives in Moscow, and by this, made it clear (2) Stalin regime had searched the Soviet type of modernization by means that the regime, in spite of official inaugurating the revolution's educational ideas (polytechnicism and labor education), did not realized human and material resources for the school sites, and introduced competition and rituals into the school and sifted mother language teaching and observing inner discipline, and (3) explored some sides of the most prominent theoretician of labor school, P. Blonsky's disobedient attitude to Stalin.

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