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Wrong Hand, Wrong Children? The Education of Left-Handed Children in Soviet Latvia

2019

Left-handers have always been surrounded by stigma and controversy, and attitudes toward this group have always been rooted in the ideas and traditions of power relations existing in a given society. Thus, the goal of this study is to describe the retraining of left-handers as it was conducted in Soviet education. The impact of political power on an individual’s body-mind interaction is a significant problem in research on the creation of the “New Soviet Man.” The teaching of left-handed children in the Soviet Union is a noteworthy example of the totalitarian regime’s illusionary endeavors to change human nature. The Soviet education envisaged neither a special attitude nor any particular p…

Left handedSoviet education060106 history of social sciencesOmnipotence05 social sciences0507 social and economic geographyRetrainingeducation of left-handed childrenPower relationsStigma (botany)06 humanities and the artslcsh:Education (General)EducationPower (social and political)Politicsproject of the “New Soviet man”AestheticsPolitical science0601 history and archaeologylcsh:L7-991Soviet uniondisciplining of the body and mind050703 geographyActa Paedagogica Vilnensia
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Valkoinen kurki levittää siipensä. Huomautuksia taijiquanin oppimisesta ja tuntemattomaan maastoon etenemisestä.

2004

body and mindkokemuksettaijiquanliikunnan psykologiaexperienceskehon ja mielen yhteyspsychology of sports
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