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Civic Education Policy and Practice in Post-Soviet Estonia, from Global Influences to Classroom Practice

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West has invested billions of dollars to help post communist countries make the transition to democratic governance and free markets. One aspect of this effort is international assistance in the development of civic education programs. This dissertation seeks to understand the dynamics of the Estonian civic education policy landscape within its global context. Using qualitative research methods, special attention is paid to the flow of civic education materials, ideas or practices, as they make their way from international influences to classroom practice. Why aren't international materials being adopted more readily in the classroom? The absence is over determined: there are so many contributing factors, that even the removal of several of them might not be sufficient for such influence to begin to appear.

agricultural specialists, for example, integrated civics not with history but instead
with economics, and required two hours of study during the final year. Civic
education earned an entry in the Estonian Encyclopedia of 1934, which indicates
that ...