Abstract
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Establishing Theoretical Tools
Chapter 1. Childhood and Education Intertwined
Chapter 2. Children and Schooling through Sociological Lens
Chapter 3. Understanding Stratification in Socialist and Post-Socialist Space
Part 2. Comparing Childhoods
Chapter 4. Change or Continuity: from the Soviet Reality to the New Russia
Chapter 5. Brave New World? Staggering Inequality in America
Chapter 6. Quantifying Childhood (co-authored with Volha Chykina)
Chapter 7. Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going
Appendix. Datasets Used for the Analysis in Chapters 5 and 6
References
Index
Dr. Katerina Bodovski is an Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Policy in the Department of Education Policy Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2007. She obtained both an M.A. in Sociology and a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Bodovski’s research interests include sociology of education, stratification and inequality, parental practices, cultural capital, comparative and international education, and education of immigrant children. Broadly defined, her research focuses on gaining an understanding of the factors shaping student behavior and academic achievement, related to family practices, neighborhood characteristics and school settings. More recently, Dr. Bodovski has expanded her research to include post-socialist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as cross-national examination of characteristics of the educational systems. In 2015, Dr. Bodovski published a book Across Three Continents: Reflections on Immigration, Education, and Personal Survival (Peter Lang Publishing). This combination of autobiographical narrative and sociological analysis discusses the author’s firsthand experiences in Soviet Russia, Israel, and the United States. Her second book, Childhood and Education in the United States and Russia: Sociological and Comparative Perspectives(2019, Emerald Group Publishing), dives deeper into understanding of the social texture of the two countries and the ways they shape childhood experiences.