Limiting Privilege : Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland PDF
by Agata Zysiak
Part of the Central European Studies series
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State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities-all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Lodz, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
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- Pages:284 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2023
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:284 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781612498843