A Feminist Autoethnography of Language Education and Childhood on Slavic Soil and Stateside

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Margaret A. Berg

A Feminist Autoethnography of Language Education and Childhood on Slavic Soil and Stateside

Margaret A. Berg

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Routledge
19 November 2025

Language Teaching (non-ELT); Research methods: general; Feminism & feminist theory; Social & cultural anthropology; Organisation & management of education

Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

This book replicates and offers a fresh reconceptualization of the 1970 comparative education book Two Worlds of Childhood, U.S. and U.S.S.R., researched and written by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who later drew on the experiences to propose a comprehensive framework of human development: Bronfenbrenner・s Ecological System Theory (BEST), published in 1979.

BEST situates the human at the center of four ・systems・ of a social environment where the highest level of culture (or ・macro□system・) affects all lower levels down to the individual person, but where the lower levels can also influence higher levels. This interplay between culture and a person lies at the heart of autoethnography, and in this book, the author, an English teacher of 30 years, applies this framework to her experience preparing future teachers of the English language in a Northwestern Russian university. As the seasons change, she reflects upon her six years of teaching on Slavic soil and her eight-year-old daughter・s transition to a Russian public school after three years of learning in a dual□language English/Russian school in the United States. The text provides observations of elementary, secondary, and college□level classrooms and translations of poems found in the elementary Russian language and literature program.

Exploring the vulnerability of educating a child in a foreign context through the perspective of a mother-scholar, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in comparative and international education, literacy education, and autoethnography.

By: Margaret A. Berg
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032743899
ISBN 10: 1032743891
Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 19 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret A. Berg is Professor of Education at the University of Northern Colorado, USA.