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Over a period of more than twenty years I have made an annual pilgrimage to the USSR, visited a great many schools, pedagogical institutes, universities and polytechnics and discussed issues of mutual and specific concern with eminent Soviet educationists such as Kairov, Markushevich, Zubov, Menchinskaya, Luria and Leont’ev. Before my visits many of my presuppositions were based on long discussions with Nicholas Hans and accounts of the system by Soviet authors which appeared regularly in the Year Book of Education (Lauwerys et al.). John Dewey, in a similar position, was prepared to trust his own impressions and judgement, but I am not. Rather, I see regular visits to the Soviet Union as a way of testing hypotheses that arise from the vast literature in English and German on the system of education in the USSR (cf. Holmes et al.).
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Holmes, B. (1986). Soviet Education: Travellers’ Tales. In: Tomiak, J.J. (eds) Western Perspectives on Soviet Education in the 1980s. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07179-1_3
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