@Tomasz: Children aren’t as good at adjusting for broadcast biases as adults are. Folktales are transmitted mainly from adults to children (as they have lost their entertainment and instructional value to adults thanks to movies, books and television).
During the soviet period child upbringing was heavily influenced by kindergartens (since both parents needed to go to work, and only a minority of mothers could afford to stay with the child at home). The memes kindergartens ‘copied to’ children were designed by state-owned pedagogic and educational research institutes in the form of ‘upbringing methodologies’ (I don’t know a proper English equivalent of the term), state-owned toy manufacturers, state-sponsored book writers and state-owned book printers.
From personal childhood experience (70s-80s) and from what my parents and grandparents told me, all children around the country had the same toys, read the same books and played same games in the kindergartens. Many of the books contained (selected and adapted) folktales, but I can’t remember a single one as horrible as the one Doug posted.
(All this meme-copying language sounds evil, but personally, I prefer to expose my own daughter to soviet kindergarten material (toys, cartoons and books) than to what the ‘free market’ throws at children today—with rare exceptions such as Miyazaki or Pixar).
@Tomasz: Children aren’t as good at adjusting for broadcast biases as adults are. Folktales are transmitted mainly from adults to children (as they have lost their entertainment and instructional value to adults thanks to movies, books and television).
During the soviet period child upbringing was heavily influenced by kindergartens (since both parents needed to go to work, and only a minority of mothers could afford to stay with the child at home). The memes kindergartens ‘copied to’ children were designed by state-owned pedagogic and educational research institutes in the form of ‘upbringing methodologies’ (I don’t know a proper English equivalent of the term), state-owned toy manufacturers, state-sponsored book writers and state-owned book printers.
From personal childhood experience (70s-80s) and from what my parents and grandparents told me, all children around the country had the same toys, read the same books and played same games in the kindergartens. Many of the books contained (selected and adapted) folktales, but I can’t remember a single one as horrible as the one Doug posted.
(All this meme-copying language sounds evil, but personally, I prefer to expose my own daughter to soviet kindergarten material (toys, cartoons and books) than to what the ‘free market’ throws at children today—with rare exceptions such as Miyazaki or Pixar).