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Title: Educational Reforms in the Soviet Union. Special Studies in Comparative Education, Number Fourteen.
Language: English
Authors: Long, Delbert, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo. Comparative Education Center.
Availability: Publications Division, Comparative Education Center, 428 Baldy Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260 ($6.00 postpaid).
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 69
Publication Date: 1985
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change
Geographic Terms: USSR
Abstract: The Soviet school system is, and has been since its inception, a vital instrument of state policy. The Soviet political leaders of the 1980s, in an effort to improve their educational system, are implementing into the academic program the basic Soviet educational principles of: (1) promoting Communist Party policies; (2) coordinating school work with youth, community, and political organizations, and with industrial and agricultural enterprises; (3) combining polytechnical labor education, aesthetic education, and general education with moral education; (4) equating moral education with the Lenin communist ethical system; and (5) uniting academic and ethical knowledge with socially useful applications. School structure changes are included in the reform effort. First, children will complete 11 years of general education beginning at age 6. Second, vocational schools will be consolidated into one institution. And third, all students must acquire a skill proficiency in some common occupation. To accomplish these goals, a large number of talented people must be encouraged to enter the teaching profession, classrooms must be provided with technological equipment, and substantial funds must be provided. Examining the Soviet efforts at educational reform will provide valuable insights about imaginative educational methods and means in another society whose ends are so very different. (126 references) (KM)
Entry Date: 1990
Accession Number: ED311579
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