Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)Reading the Global in Comparative Education -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Rediscovering post-socialism in comparative education -- Theorizing post-socialism in the age of globalization -- (Re)reading the global -- The futures of post-socialism: What is ''not yet'' -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Education and Post-Socialist Transformations in Southeast/Central Europe and the Former Soviet Unio -- Chapter 2. Education after the fall of the Berlin Wall: the end of history or the beginning of histories? -- Introduction -- The focus on educational change and reform -- Method and structure of the study -- Past perspectives on educational change -- Emerging approaches to educational change in the region -- Conclusion -- References -- Section I: Examining New Policy Narratives -- Chapter 3. Policy Why(s): Policy rationalities and the changing logic of educational reform in postcommunist Ukraine -- Introduction -- Political and policy context of Ukraine: Toward a poststructuralist critique -- Analysis: Policy rationalities deconstructed -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Visions of reform in post-socialist Romania: decentralization (through hybridization) and teacher autonomy -- Introduction -- Visions of reform: A theoretical framework -- Methods and data sources -- Modernization as Europeanization -- Decentralization in policy documents: a hybridization of ideas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Rethinking transition through ideas of ''community'' in Hungarian kindergarten curriculum -- Introduction -- Community as an ''answer'' -- Laying the foundations for socialist kindergarten -- The idea of socialist ''community'' -- Reforms leading up to regime change -- The wind of change - ''new program'' -- After transition.

The death of ''community'' - the core program -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6. A framework for understanding dramatic change: Educational transformation in post-Soviet Russia -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The context: Public discontent with an educational system in need of reform -- Analysis of the Russian experience using Fullan's conceptual framework -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section II: Redefining Nations and Identities -- Chapter 7. The semblance of progress amidst the absence of change: Educating for an imagined Europe in Moldova and Albania -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- Methodology -- Moldova -- Albania -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. Rewriting the nation: World War II narratives in Polish history textbooks -- Introduction -- Background -- Theoretical foundations and perspectives -- Sources and methods -- Findings -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Textbook Sources -- Chapter 9. When intolerance means more than prejudice: Challenges to Lithuanian education reforms for social tolerance -- Introduction: Lithuania at the crossroads -- Political technologies: The use of policy, precedent, and school -- Sovietization and Europeanization -- Education reform for tolerance in Lithuania -- Sexual orientation: The limits of tolerance in Lithuania? -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 10. Transnational vitality of the Finno-Ugric identity in Estonia: The role of education and advocacy in a new geopolitical context -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework and methodology -- Theoretical framework and methodology -- Historical context -- Vignettes -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Education and Post-Socialist Transformations Worldwide.

Chapter 11. The reconfiguration of state-university-student relationships in post/socialist China -- Introduction -- Post/socialist higher education with Chinese characteristics -- Case studies: Post/socialist reconfiguration of the state-university-student relationship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 12. Socialist, post-socialist, and post-post-socialist education transformations in Nicaragua -- Introduction -- Education in pre-socialist Nicaragua (the Somozas, 1936-1979) -- Education in socialist Nicaragua (the FSLN, 1979-1989) -- Education in post-socialist Nicaragua (1990-2007) -- Education in post-post-socialist Nicaragua (2007-present) -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 13. Staying the (post)socialist course: Global/local transformations and Cuban education -- Education in Cuba before the ''special period in time of peace'' -- Economic collapse and the periodo especial en tiempo de paz -- Cuban education in the ''special period'' through the present -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14. African socialism, post-colonial development, and education: Change and continuity in the post-socialist era -- Introduction -- African socialism and education: Theoretical perspectives -- Motives, origins, and forms of African socialism -- African socialism in flux: ''Failure'' of African socialism? -- Continuity: Enduring legacies and new/renewed presences in Africa -- Educational transformations -- Prospects for 21st-century transformation? -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15. Beyond post-socialist conversions: Functional cooperation and trans-regional regimes in the global South -- Introduction -- Policy discourse and policy reform -- Historicizing functional cooperation -- Post-socialist transformation: intensified cooperation 1990-1996 -- Policy tsunami, space, and time -- Conclusion.

Notes -- References -- Author biographies.