This article presents an interview with Beatrice Beach Szekely, a comparative education scholar that specialized in the Soviet Union. She was editor of the journal "Soviet Education" from 1970 to 1989. During the interview, Szekely talked about how she became personally involved in Russian/Soviet studies of education. She related that…

This article presents an interview with Harold J. Noah, Gardner Cowles Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education and former dean at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He edited the "Comparative Education Review" from 1965 to 1971, was president of the U.S. Comparative and International Education Society in 1973, and is…

Discusses current Soviet educational research. Included are reviews of training and certification of research personnel, pedagogy and psychology, and problems of educational psychology. (AM)

Reviews literacy campaigns, continuing education, and other programs for adults in China, Vietnam, and the U.S.S.R. (SK)

The author relates comments and comparisons made by Soviet educators who visited his New York high school. (SJL)

After World War II, Allied policy toward German science became entangled with issues of reparations and programs at home instead of contributing to the positive reconstruction of Germany. The Americans, the British, and the Russians dealt with German scientists and research institutions in very different ways. (AM)

Describes creative technology programs for elementary and secondary school children in the Soviet Union. Elementary school projects include aircraft, ship, and rocket models, amateur radio, electrical engineering, and electronics. Senior high school students design and build small-capacity vehicles, agricultural equipment, and electronic…

A roundtable of Soviet academicians addressed the problem of extending educational research to higher education, with emphasis on better preparation of university students for their vocations and on lessons to be learned from Soviet research on pedagogy and educational psychology related to primary and secondary schools. (IM)

Discusses the role of atheism in Soviet education. A theoretical justification for the formal program of atheistic education used in the state school system is offered. Curriculum and methods for teaching atheism and approaches for teaching children from strongly religious homes are described. (AM)

Research on comparative and international education cannot rely solely on the work of scholars. Before conclusions are reached, researchers may benefit from an examination of what journalists working in various countries have learned. While journalists may give less emphasis to education than to political, economic, social, or personality factors,…

Basic features of the development and structure of higher education in the USSR are examined, and the history of general university education, higher technical education, and higher agricultural education is discussed. (RM)

Discusses general education curriculum for the mass secondary schools in the Soviet Union. Specifically examined are what to teach, what curricula and textbooks should be like, and perspectives for curriculum development. (AM)

Offers an analysis of the current restructuring of higher and specialized secondary education systems in the USSR by an American Soviet studies expert. This article is followed by six articles on various aspects of this topic which were recently translated from Russian. (JDH)

Discussed are admissions and scientific research activity in higher education in the USSR. (RM)

Topics discussed in this issue include the cognitive education of the preschooler, general problems in aesthetic education and child development, educating children through play, family influence on the preschooler's personality, and the preparation of children for school. (RM)