Training Future Comrades
Gender Pedagogy and Model Train Sets in the German Democratic Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337223 |
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| Authors | Mario Bianchini (0009-0001-0984-2242, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 875-902 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01622439241292086 |
| OpenAlex | W4404083230 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This article investigates how model train sets became a medium for the marketing and development of East German technological utopianism, particularly in order to recruit women into the technical workforce. It begins by contextualizing the role of women in the GDR and their recruitment into engineering. From there, it explores the pedagogical power of East German train sets as well as its cultural impact on children. Finally, this article examines how technological utopianism shaped East German culture and how the model train was only one such effort on the road to the socialist utopia in East Germany
Democracy · German · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German History and Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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