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Vindicating Stalin: Responding to Lefebvre
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Malott, Curry – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
No significant scholarship in educational studies has focused on Lefebvre's engagement with socialist state theory and his position against Stalin. As a result, when Lefebvre's thoughts on the state and on actually existing socialism are mentioned, they are engaged completely uncritically. This essay addresses this crucial gap. Toward these ends,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Ideology, Leaders
From Aesthetics to Psychology: Notes on Vygotsky's "Psychology of Art."
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Guimaraes Lima, Marcelo – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1995
Discusses Vygotsky's ideas in art psychology on the role of emotion in art, the nature of the aesthetic experience, the semiotic nature of psychological processes, and the foundation of a Marxist psychology and a Marxist aesthetics. Central to all of his ideas was his critique of Russian formalism. (MMU)
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Expression, Creativity, Emotional Development
The Fate of the Communist Ideal of Education.
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Gessen, S. I. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Maintains that during the first 15 years of Soviet rule, the Communist Party's school policy went through at least 5 transformations. Describes these changes in light of Stalin's New Economic Policy. Speculates that the Russian school system will return to its slow progress toward "Americanization." (ACM)
Descriptors: Communism, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education