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One morning I was unexpectedly asked to conduct an English lesson with a senior class 10 group at School 1937.
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The theory of the Soviet curriculum is dealt with in much greater detail in ‘The Content of Education: What and Why’, ch. 2 of Muckle, J., A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1988), pp. 22–33. Full details of all subject syllabuses are to be found in that book.
Information on schooling for children with special educational needs may be found in Riordan, J. (ed.), Soviet Education: the Gifted and the Handicapped ( London: Routledge, 1988 ).
An account in English of methods for teaching reading to Russian-speaking children may be read in Downing, J., ‘Reading Research and Instruction in the USSR’, Reading Teacher, vol. 37, no. 7, 1984, pp. 598–604.
The evidence for this statement may be found in Zverev, I. D. and Kashin, M. P., Sovershenstvovanie soderzhaniya obrazovaniya v shkole ( Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1985 ), pp. 62–3.
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Muckle, J. (1990). The Curriculum. In: Portrait of a Soviet School under Glasnost. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21077-0_5
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