Natascha Shalutkevich, M.A.

Research Interests

• discourse analysis (SKAD)
• (early) childhood education in former GDR and FRG during the Cold War
• transition to school
• soviet pedagogy, especially collective education developed by Anton Makarenko
• comparative education with focus on “Eastern” and “Western” discourses
• transitioning and transformations on post-socialistic spaces

Scientific Presentations in English

• 21.04.22 AERA Annual Meeting “Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21^st Century”, San Diego, USA
  Making Children become Pupils in Comparative Perspectives: On Genealogies of Didactic Beliefs
  As part of the panel “Doing Transitions – on making and becoming across the life course”

• 06.01.23 Workshop “Rethinking Social Collectivity in the Japanese Society from the Viewpoint of Modern Educational History”,
  Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  Traces of Makarenko´s Education in GDR Pre-School Programmes

• 11.05.23 International Conference “Doing Transitions. Relational perspectives on the life course”,
  Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  Discursive Childhood Constructions in Pre-School Programmes
  As part of the panel “Institutional regimes in the life course”

• 25.07.23 ISCHE 44 “Histories of Education and Reform: Traditions, Tensions and Transitions”, ONLINE
  Educator´s personality as a decisive power in children´s development: Makarenko´s influence in former GDR
  As part of the panel “Socialism, gender, and notions on ideal teacher in East Germany, Japan, and China”