Pionjärernas proletära pedagogik: Bruket av pedagogisk bildning, inlevelse och skapande med målet att uppfylla den kommunistiska utopin, 1924 –1929
(2024) ILHM05 20241Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Abstract
- The Proletarian Pedagogy of the Pioneers: Education Through Self-Cultivation, Immersion, and Creativity with the Aim to Achieve the Communist Utopia, 1924–1929.
The thesis examines how the Swedish pioneer movement between the years 1924 and 1929 tried to raise the new socialist generation through a pedagogy which they believed were necessary to achieve the Communist Utopia, the classless society. By categorising the proletarian pedagogy in three ideal types, Self-Cultivation (bildning), Immersion, and Creativity, the main objective of the thesis is to explore how the proletarian pedagogy was designed with the goal to materialise Utopia. Key theoretical concepts of the thesis are borrowed from the field of Utopian studies. The concept of... (More) - The Proletarian Pedagogy of the Pioneers: Education Through Self-Cultivation, Immersion, and Creativity with the Aim to Achieve the Communist Utopia, 1924–1929.
The thesis examines how the Swedish pioneer movement between the years 1924 and 1929 tried to raise the new socialist generation through a pedagogy which they believed were necessary to achieve the Communist Utopia, the classless society. By categorising the proletarian pedagogy in three ideal types, Self-Cultivation (bildning), Immersion, and Creativity, the main objective of the thesis is to explore how the proletarian pedagogy was designed with the goal to materialise Utopia. Key theoretical concepts of the thesis are borrowed from the field of Utopian studies. The concept of edutopia aims to capture the relationship between pedagogical ideas of the pioneers and their ideal future. The concept of practical utopias aims to analyse how this was applied practically in the members’ daily activities.
The results show that the pioneers’ edutopia was closely linked to, but not identical with, the communist utopia. Furthermore, the pioneers’ intentional community included more than just the children. The analysis has shown that their parents were also included in the practical utopia. The pioneers’ edutopia was characterised by the objective to nurture the children to become independent, disciplined fighters for the labour movement. This pedagogy would be taught by applying several methods, all practised in the pioneers’ daily activities. In the first place, the methods of Self-Cultivation in the pioneers’ pedagogy were practised through activism in schools and summer camps. These have been shown to be utopian practices, because they aimed to challenge and even change the educational practices in the bourgeois schools and teach the children the socialist worldview. The methods of Immersion include play, organisation, theatre, and music. They have been shown to be utopian, as they were aimed to teach the children about class struggle and how it should be fought. Finally, educational Creativity was practised in the production of the pioneers’ magazine, Den unge kamraten. This publication has been shown to form a utopian practice, due to its aim to be an instrument for organising the pioneer movement as a mass movement across national borders. (Less)
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- Holsti Heijbel, Hedvig LU
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- course
- ILHM05 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- The Young Pioneers, Communism, Children, Pedagogy, Education, Utopia, Self-cultivation, Immersion, Creativity, Practical utopias, Edutopia
- language
- Swedish
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- 9162987
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- 2024-10-01 15:51:51
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abstract = {{The Proletarian Pedagogy of the Pioneers: Education Through Self-Cultivation, Immersion, and Creativity with the Aim to Achieve the Communist Utopia, 1924–1929.
The thesis examines how the Swedish pioneer movement between the years 1924 and 1929 tried to raise the new socialist generation through a pedagogy which they believed were necessary to achieve the Communist Utopia, the classless society. By categorising the proletarian pedagogy in three ideal types, Self-Cultivation (bildning), Immersion, and Creativity, the main objective of the thesis is to explore how the proletarian pedagogy was designed with the goal to materialise Utopia. Key theoretical concepts of the thesis are borrowed from the field of Utopian studies. The concept of edutopia aims to capture the relationship between pedagogical ideas of the pioneers and their ideal future. The concept of practical utopias aims to analyse how this was applied practically in the members’ daily activities.
The results show that the pioneers’ edutopia was closely linked to, but not identical with, the communist utopia. Furthermore, the pioneers’ intentional community included more than just the children. The analysis has shown that their parents were also included in the practical utopia. The pioneers’ edutopia was characterised by the objective to nurture the children to become independent, disciplined fighters for the labour movement. This pedagogy would be taught by applying several methods, all practised in the pioneers’ daily activities. In the first place, the methods of Self-Cultivation in the pioneers’ pedagogy were practised through activism in schools and summer camps. These have been shown to be utopian practices, because they aimed to challenge and even change the educational practices in the bourgeois schools and teach the children the socialist worldview. The methods of Immersion include play, organisation, theatre, and music. They have been shown to be utopian, as they were aimed to teach the children about class struggle and how it should be fought. Finally, educational Creativity was practised in the production of the pioneers’ magazine, Den unge kamraten. This publication has been shown to form a utopian practice, due to its aim to be an instrument for organising the pioneer movement as a mass movement across national borders.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Pionjärernas proletära pedagogik: Bruket av pedagogisk bildning, inlevelse och skapande med målet att uppfylla den kommunistiska utopin, 1924 –1929}},
year = {{2024}},
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