This paper examines 126 research articles from three comparative education journals to chart the development of knowledge within comparative education on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet countries. Thematic, theoretical, discursive, and methodological aspects of scholarship are linked with changing geopolitical realities in a systematic analysis…

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)

Examines the changing role of comparative education in the USSR from Western perspectives, particularly those of West and East Germany. Discusses some topics of comparative education research by and about the USSR in recent years, with emphasis on problems related to educational reforms inspired by perestroika. Contains 24 references. (SV)

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)

This issue of Soviet Education examines esthetic education in Soviet schools, including ways of raising the level of esthetic education, the factor of labor, research on the relationship between the atheistic and esthetic education, ways of amplifying interrelationship between theory and practice in teacher education and psychological principles…

One of the primary concerns of the Communist Party and one of the main tasks of the Leninist Komsomol is rearing boys and girls in a spirit of respect and love for labor. (Author/RM)

The author describes the importance of coordination and information management in distributing scientific research work in the appropriate portions among scientific institutions, higher education institutions, and other institutions which conduct research in the pedagogical sciences. (Author)

The trend toward polytechnical education as a model for future educational reform in the Soviet Union is emphasized. (DE)

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,…

A research study examined how elementary school children learn music. Among the findings is that any musical activity is impossible without the development of musical auditory images. (Author/RM)

Compares two comparative studies on the status of mathematics education in the United States and the USSR. The findings of the study "An Analysis of Mathematics Education in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" by Robert B. Davis and others and an unpublished report by Isaac Wirszup are discussed. (AM)

Describes the results of comparative study of Russian elementary students' learning of spelling under an experimental didactic system and under traditional methods. Findings confirmed the hypothesis that sophistication in spelling depends on the overall development of pupils. (Author/RM)