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Spanning over 40 years (1948–1989), the Czechoslovak communist governance produced diverse conceptualisations of childhoods that remain often invisible, unexplored, and the current analyses are at best sketchy and refer mostly to pedagogical nuances of strong ideological pedagogical struggles. One way to explore such an abundance of historical data in a short journal article is to utilise a somewhat personal narrative of a child. This dialogic approach allows the strong presence of the voice of a child, re-told from an adult’s perspective, and it methodologically justifies an approach to thinking and theorising of socialist childhoods through Vaclav Havel’s (1985; 1989; 1990) theoretical thinking that has been utilised in philosophy of education previously (see Tesar, 2015e) . There are also other examples of complex and thorough analyses of socialist childhoods in other countries (see for example Aydarova et al, 2016), and theoretical thinking about the socialist child as a foreigner to its own land, can be done through Kristeva’s lens (Arndt, 2015) . |  |  |\n\nMarek Tesar is a senior lecturer in childhood studies and early childhood education at the University of Auckland. He is Editor-in-Chief of Policy Futures in Education published by SAGE, and is engaged indifferent editorial capacities with a number of other journals and book series. His focus is on childhood, philosophy of education, policy and methodology.  \n􀀡􀀡􀀢  \nIntroduction  \nThere was not one, singular childhood in socialist Czechoslovakia, but many and diverse, plural, childhoods. Spanning over 40 years (1948–1989)1 , the Czechoslovak communist governance produced diverse conceptualisations of childhoods that remain often invisible, unexplored, and the current analyses are at best sketchy and refer mostly to pedagogical nuances of strong ideological pedagogical struggles. One way to explore such an abundance of historical data in a short journal article is to utilise a somewhat personal narrative of a child. This dialogic approach allows the strong presence of the voice of a child, retold from an adult’s perspective, and it methodologically justifies an approach to thinking and theorising of socialist childhoods through Vaclav Havel’s (1985; 1989; 1990) theoretical thinking that has been utilised in philosophy of education previously (see Tesar, 2015e) . There are also other examples of complex and thorough analyses of socialist childhoods in other countries (see for example Aydarova et al, 2016), and  \n1 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic)  \nDialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal | [http://dpj.pitt.edu](http://dpj.pitt.edu)  \nDOI: 10.5195/dpj.2018.244 | Vol. 6 (2018) SC49  \nPower, ideology and children: Socialist childhoods in Czechoslovakia  \nMarek Tesar  \ntheoretical thinking about the socialist child as a foreigner to its own land, can be done through Kristeva’s lens (Arndt , 2015) .  \nChildhoods in communist Czechoslovakia might be positioned in a time and space of mutual surveillance of all citizens, in public and private spaces. While children and their childhoods were governed by a strong ideology that aimed to shape children subjects’ positions, this may lead to sweeping statementsand assumptions when compared to childhoods in Western countries. For example, that these children must have been painful, dull and boring, and perhaps sad. There are obvious differences from Western childhoods, such as being indoctrinated by political figures such as Stalin (in the 1950s), Lenin and other political figures, and knowledge about the Communist Party incorporated ","cbCaicmssj15BONQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicmssj15BONQ","pdf",243945,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Conceptualising plural socialist childhoods\n## Governance, ideology, and childhood experiences\n## Mutual surveillance and spaces of resistance","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article argue there was no single childhood in socialist Czechoslovakia?\",\"answer\":\"It states that communist governance produced many plural and diverse conceptualisations of childhood, which remain largely invisible and unexplored. 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