Pedagogies of Time: “Editing” Textbooks, Timelines, and Childhood Memories

Drawing on the concept of “pedagogies time,” this article analyzes early literacy textbooks and our own childhood memories temporal socialization in (post)Soviet Armenia, Georgia, Latvia. While textbook analysis reveals purposeful children into modern linear timelines, memory stories interrupt these predetermined trajectories shift attention toward multiple forms temporalities that coexist alongside entangle with each other. Using a speculative thought experiment, we “edit” chronological timeline one from as an attempt to simultaneously (re)write dominant timespaces socialist modernity way appears there.