Post-revolutionary policy of the Soviet Russia in relation to engineering education: the struggle of political sentimentalists and socio-economic pragmatists

Послереволюционная политика Советской России в отношении инженерного образования: борьба политических романтиков и социально-экономических прагматиков

Dobrynina, Mariya (Добрынина, Мария) ()
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Dobrynina, Mariya (Добрынина, Мария): National Research University of Electronic Technology

Voprosy upravleniya / Management Issues, 2019, 16-26

Abstract: the author of this article examines the main trends of reforming the system of engineering education in Soviet Russia in 1917–1925. It is noted that a huge obstacle to the implementation of the program of personnel reproduction was the lack of managerial and teaching staff at schools, training courses and professional schools. There are three main imperatives of the system of technical education development in this period: proletarianization (accompanied by feminization and indigenization); centralization and politicization of education management; review of the content of curricula and training programs educational institutions, indoctrination of the establishment paternalism. The study notes that the state economy re-quired a forced recovery and modernization, so at the end of the Civil War, technical education is the subject of particular attention of the party-state apparatus of government At the same time, it was during this critical period that the third direction of reform was outlined and further strengthened: the revision of the content of curricula and curricula of technical schools from the standpoint of state-party paternalism. The essence of the policy of paternalism in science, culture and education is to ensure that the ideological construction, political values and doctrines, designed at the state-party level in a certain ideological concept, transferred to the educational and research plans of the scientific and educational institutions, repertoire and exhibition policy of cultural institutions. It is shown that the policy of political romanticism ("the imminent victory of the proletariat in the world revolution") was defeated. It is noted that since the mid-20s technical education is focused on solving pragmatic, primarily economic goals

Keywords: educational system; engineering education; Revolution; Military Communism; proletarisation; paternalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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