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Limiting Privilege : Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
Limiting Privilege : Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
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Author(s): Zysiak, Agata
ISBN No.: 9781612498829
Pages: 276
Year: 202312
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 75.89
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"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 ódz, 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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