Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies

Iveta Silova is Professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, USA. Her research focuses on the study of globalization and the intersections of postsocialist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives in education. Nelli Piattoeva is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Tampere, Finland. She is interested in the post-Soviet audit culture and its effects on schools, as well as the production of numerical data on education and the political work done with numbers. Zsuzsa Millei is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland. Her work explores the cultural politics of childhood, childhood and nation, childhood as a political form of being, and children as political actors.

• Remembering Childhoods, Rewriting (Post)Socialist Lives; Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova & Zsuzsa Millei.- Memories in Dialogue: Transnational Stories about Socialist Childhoods; Helga Lénárt-Cheng & Ioana Luca.- A Dulled Mind in an Active Body: Growing up as a Girl in Normalization Czechoslovakia; Libora Oates-Indruchová.- On the Edge of Two Zones: Slovak Socialist Childhoods; Ondrej Kascak & Branislav Pupala.- Growing up as Vicar´s Daughter in Communist Czechoslovakia: Politics, Religion and Childhood Agency Examined; Irena Kašparová.- Uncle Ho’s Good Children Award and State Power at a Socialist School in Vietnam; Violette Ho.- Tito’s Last Pioneers and the Politicization of Schooling in Yugoslavia; Anna Bogic.- Hair Bows and Uniforms: Entangled Politics in Children’s Everyday Lives; Zsuzsa Millei, Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova & Elena Aydarova.- Interrupted Trajectory: The Experiences of Disability and Home Schooling in Post-Soviet Russia; Alfiya Battalova.- Teaching it Straight:Sexuality Education Across Post-State-Socialist Contexts; Ela Przybylo & Polina Ivleva.- Erasure and Renewal in (Post)Socialist China: My Mother’s Long Journey; Jinting Wu.- Towards Decolonizing Childhood and Knowledge Production; Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova & Nelli Piattoeva.- Preface to Afterwords; Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova & Nelli Piattoeva.- Narratives from Bygone Times: Towards Multiplicity of Socialist Childhoods; Marek Tesar.- The Worlds of Childhood Memory; Robert Imre.- Decolonizing the Postsocialist Childhood Memories; Madina Tlostanova.- Beyond the Young Pioneers: Memorywork with Socialist and (Post)Socialist Childhoods; Susanne Gannon.- A New Horizon for Comparative Education?; Jeremy Rappleye.

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