Enterprisers - Fedyukin, Igor

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Auteur(s) : Fedyukin, Igor

Editeur : Paperbackshop Uk Import

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2019

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 328.0

Expédition : 575

Dimensions : 24.5 x 16.8 x 22.0

ISBN : 9780190845001

Résumé :

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Monks, Masters, and Missionaries: From Teachership to Schools in Late Muscovy


• Chapter 2: The Navigation School and the Profit-Maker


• Chapter 3: The Naval Academy and the Imposter Baron Without Any Diploma


• Chapter 4: The Naval Schools and Peter I's Grand Reglaments, 1710s-1730s


• Chapter 5: The Noble Cadet Corps and the Pietist Field Marshal, 1730s


• Chapter 6: The Fops, the Courtiers, the Favorites, and other Reformers of the Service Schools, 1740s- 1760s


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

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Biographie:
Igor Fedyukin is Associate Professor and the founding director of the Center for Imperial Russian History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC) and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). In 2012-2013 he served as a vice-minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

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Sommaire:
The Enterprisers traces the emergence of the modern school in Russia during the reigns of Peter I and his immediate successors, up to the accession of Catherine II. Creation of the new, secular, technically-oriented schools based on the imported Western European blueprints is traditionally presented as the key element in Peter I's transformation of Russia. The tsar, it is assumed, needed schools to train officers and engineers for his new army and the navy, and so he personally designed these new institutions and forced them upon his unwilling subjects. In this sense, school also stands in as a metaphor for modern institutions in Russia in general, which are likewise seen as created from the top down, by the forceful state, in response to its military and technological needs. Yet, in reality, Peter I himself never wrote much about education, and while he championed learning in a broad sense, he had remarkably little to say about the ways schools and schooling should be organized. Nor were his general and admirals, including foreigners in Russian service, keen on promoting formal schooling: for them, practical apprenticeship still remained the preferred method of training. Rather, as Fedyukin argues in this book, the trajectories of institutional change were determined by the efforts of administrative entrepreneurs-or projecteurs, as they were also called-who built new schools as they sought to achieve diverse career goals, promoted their own pet ideas, advanced their claims for expertise, and competed for status and resources. By drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival sources, Fedyukin explores the micropolitics behind the key episodes of educational innovation in the first half of the eighteenth century and offers an entirely new way of thinking about Petrine revolution and about the early modern state in Russia....