Abstract
This chapter presents a critical analysis of American educational reconstruction efforts in post-communist Europe after the end of the Cold War. In the 1990s the Third Wave of worldwide democratization was cresting, and in the field of education, democracy, and democratization enjoyed renewed interest. For many American scholars and researchers, the fall of the Berlin Wall opened up significant opportunities to offer workshops, attend conferences in the region, serve as expert advisors, participate in exchange programs, and compete for substantial grants from the U.S. government to carry out this work. The primary fields of interaction between educators from the East and West were in civic education, pre- and in-service teacher training, and curriculum development. This study will examine these reconstruction efforts by American education scholars with a critical lens that makes use of intellectual history on the social construction of Eastern Europe.
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