Exporting Soviet Ideas Through Education

Our most recent edition of European Education: Issues and Studies was a special, guest-edited issue titled "Governing Educational Spaces: Historical Perspectives." In this issue, Tom G. Griffiths and Euridice Charon Cardona of the University of Newcastle in Australia have provided a helpful historical look at the Soviet university aid program during the Cold War. The paper explores the topic from a world-systems perspective. Griffiths and Cardona highlight the intended catch-up style modernization and national economic development for countries through their participation in the Soviet university aid program as well as the intended development of the human capital of participant countries. The Soviet university aid program was in place from 1956 to 1991 and it was one of history’s largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence and to reshape the world through university education. Their look at Soviet soft power draws on existing research and Soviet archival materials. Specifically, they explore the program's focus on students from “developing” and newly-independent countries, and its ambition to form graduates who would return home to become national leaders sympathetic to Soviet socialism. If you would like to read this entire paper, "Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System," or any other content from our journal, you can find out more about subscriptions at this page.

Table of Contents Volume 47 Number 1 (Spring 2015)

Access to and Accessibility of Education Throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe 

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
Access to and Accessibility of Education Throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe
Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Barbara Stauber & Eduardo Barberis
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001251

Access to and Accessibility of Education: An Analytic and Conceptual Approach to a Multidimensional Issue
Barbara Stauber & Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001254

Institutional Frameworks and Structural Factors Relating to Educational Access Across Europe
Andy Biggart, Tero Järvinen & Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001256

Attitudes and Practices of Parents: Disadvantage and Access to Education
Nicola De Luigi & Alessandro Martelli
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001259

Creating Accessibility to Education: The Role of School Staff's Discretionary Practices
Eduardo Barberis & Izabela Buchowicz
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2014.1001264

Access to Higher Education at the End of Lower Secondary for “Disadvantaged” Students: The Interplay of Structural, Institutional Frameworks and Student Agency
Isabelle Danic
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001267

BOOK REVIEW
Transnational Policy Flows in European Education: The Making and Governing of Knowledge in the Education Policy Field Andreas Nordin & Daniel Sundberg, eds., Oxford: Symposium Books, 2014.
Rolf Straubhaar
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1005430

Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE) News
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001293