Pedagogies of Culture: Schooling and Identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan, Russia

by Dilyara Suleymanova

Overview

Through an ethnographic study of schooling in the Republic of Tatarstan, this book explores how competing notions of nationhood and belonging are constructed, articulated and negotiated within educational spaces. Amidst major political and ideological moves toward centralization in Russia under the Putin presidency, this small provincial town in Tatarstan provides a unique case of local attempts to promote and preserve minority languages and cultures through education and schooling. Ultimately, the study reveals that while schooling can be an effective instrument of the state to transform individuals as well as society as a whole, school also encompasses various spaces where the agency of local actors unfolds and official messages are contested. Looking at what happens inside schools and beyond—in classrooms, hallways and playgrounds to private households or local Islamic schools—Dilyara Suleymanova here offers a detailed ethnographic account of the way centrally devised educationalpolicies are being received, negotiated and contested on the ground.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030272470
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/15/2020
Series:	Anthropological Studies of Education
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dilyara Suleymanova is a research fellow at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She has published on issues of education, politics of identity, language revitalization, online social networks, Islamic education, extremism and conflict.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:Introduction: Education and the Politics of Belonging in Russia.- Chapter 2: Producing the Citizen: Political Dynamics of Education in Post-Soviet Russia.- Chapter 3: Language, (multi-)ethnicity and Local Responses to Educational Policies in a Small Tartar Town.- Chapter 4: Pedagogies of Culture Learning to Perform, to Belong, and to Remember.- Chapter 5: Pedagogy of Islam: Madrasa Education and Moral Upbringing.- Chapter 6: "I'm Only Half!": Negotiating Identities at School.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.