1. Report Card from East Germany.
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Rodden, John
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ESSAYS , *COMMUNIST education , *PROPAGANDA , *BERLIN Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 , *GOVERNMENT policy ,SOCIAL conditions in Germany - Abstract
Based on extensive field research that the author has conducted in eastern Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this essay discusses the history of communist education in East Germany and its relevance for Western education today. Among the topics addressed are the differences between “propaganda” and “enlightenment” according to communist ideology, the structure of the East German system of education and extracurriculars, how that system fostered “textbook Reds,” and how its curricular materials portrayed the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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