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

Chapter 1/Introduction: Education and the Politics of Belonging in RussiaChapter 2: Producing the Citizen: Political Dynamics of Education in Post-Soviet Russia2.1 De-centralization of post-Soviet education2.2 Constructing post-Soviet nationhood in Tartarstan2.3 Recentralizing education: the politics of unityChapter 3: Language, (multi-)ethnicity and Local Responses to Educational Policies in a Small Tartar Town3.1 Staging and living ethnic diversity3.2 Introducing schools3.3 Sustaining schoolin post-socialist conditions3.4 Schooling in a native language: a dead-end?3.5 A zero-sum game: Russian versus Tartar in classroomsChapter 4: Pedagogies of Culture Learning to Perform, to Belong, and to Remember4.1 Ethnic culture as a pedagogic technique4.2 Learning the value of mother tongue4.3 Learning to be a patriot: concurrent discourses about motherland4.4 Learning to memorize and learning to remember: history teaching at schoolChapter 5: Pedagogy of Islam: Madrasa Education and Moral Upbringing5.1 Madrasa courses and local religious revival5.2 Religious and secular in madrasa education5.3 The pedagogic potential of IslamChapter 6: "I'm Only Half!": Negotiating Identities at School6.1 Practices of ethnic categorization in classroom6.2 Meanings and strategies of ethnic belongingChapter 7: Conclusion.