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[SOCIALIST CHILDREN] Vospitanie doshkol’nika [i.e. Education of a Preschooler]

Dernova-Iarmolenko, A.

Item #2498

Leningrad: Leningradskaia Pravda, 1929. 32 pp. 14×11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers, title page and last leaf detached, small tears of inner margins, no upper staple, otherwise clean.

Supplement for a magazine “Hygiene and Health of Worker’s and Peasant’s Family”. The author, physician Avgusta Dernova-Iarmolenko worked in the Leningrad Regional Department of People’s Education and published several books on pedagogy in the 1920s. It is an interesting small book explaining how to raise a socialist-minded child. The author examines how children of younger and older preschool age look and behave, how they differ and how an adult should behave with them, what games are useful for a child and how a child’s participation in the household routines develops them. “Only at preschool age children are so willing to help with household routines. If they are not taught to work at this age, then later it will be much more difficult to do so. Boys need these skills no less. If a woman has entered the broad arena of work outside the home, then a man must be able to replace a woman where necessary, and be sure to take part in the entire domestic life of the family. Until this is widely understood, until it is implemented, there is no equality between a man and a woman. It is especially difficult to convince a father not to emphasize to his son that he can use women’s labor, and that women should supposedly serve men.”

In addition, Dernova-Iarmolenko explains that the family teaches a child to be part of a collective and the success of his/her further socialization depends entirely on the atmosphere in the family.

Worldcat shows the only copy located in Columbia University.

Price: $650.00