Word: yamburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This broader, more liberal-arts approach is enthusiastically endorsed by teachers. Says Yevgeny Yamburg, who is both the principal and a history instructor at Moscow's Middle School No. 109: "If an engineer has never heard Tchaikovsky's music, that is terrible." In addition, teachers will for the first time be given the option to choose among texts and to diversify curriculums, which have long been dictated by the central government. "Three or four years ago, any variations in instruction methods were unthinkable," admits Vladimir Shadrikov, vice chairman of the state education committee. "Now all this has become a reality...
...generation of textbooks, teachers of history glean material from glasnost-era news articles telling long-repressed tales, such as that of Nikolai Bukharin, whose free-market economics (presaging Gorbachev's) helped get him executed by Stalin. The impact of these makeshift texts is already apparent in the discussions in Yamburg's Moscow classroom, where 15- year-olds recently debated Stalin's role in Soviet history. "He had a lot to do with the industrialization and collectivization of our country," asserted one blond-haired boy. But a classmate countered, "Some consider him a criminal because he ruined our country's industrial...
...Yamburg beamed with pride at his students' lively performance. "I feel my chief task is to form nonconformist minds," says the veteran instructor and Communist Party member. Quite a change from the party line of yesteryear...
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