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**Kazakhstan programme open seminar series**

The seminar series ‘Internationalisation and Educational Reform in Eastern European and the Commonwealth of Independent States’ is organised by the Kazakhstan programme research team as a platform for analysis, discussion and critique of the recent educational reforms in the Newly Independent nations of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. From a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives the questions that we invite us all to explore are:
– the Russian/Soviet inheritance and how this continues to shape education policy and practice
– the relationship of educational reform to the development of post independence national identity
– the internationalisation of education reform, the global education space, policy ‘borrowing’ and the indigenisation of international practice.
All are welcome!

Latest Episodes:

Measuring Skills in Europe Mar 01, 2013

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Dr Žilvinas Martinaitis talks about measuring skills in Europe.

National Qualifications, Frameworks and Learning Mar 01, 2013

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Dr Liz Winter talks about a case study of the Unified National Test (UNT) in Kazakhstan.

'Soviet' in the memories and teachers' professional beliefs in Kazakhstan: Points for reflection for reformers, international consultants and practitioners Feb 11, 2013

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Seminar presenter: Dr Olena Fimyar

'Lost in Translation'? Interpreting the language of international and intra-national education policy transfer Feb 11, 2013

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Seminar presenter: Professor David Bridges

Two seminars by Iveta Silova on Thursday 13th December 2012 - Seminar 2: Globalization on the Margins: Education and Post-Socialist transformations in Central Asia Jan 28, 2013

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Kazakhstan Programme Research Team and the Faculty of Education were delighted to welcome Iveta Silova to Cambridge with a short research visit, during which she delivered two seminars and had individual meetings with PhD students and staff. Iveta Silova is an Associate Professor and Director of Comparative and International Education program at the College of Education, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding post-socialist education transformation processes in the context of globalization, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private tutoring in a cross-national perspective. Iveta is the co-editor (with Noah W. Sobe) of a quarterly peer-reviewed journal *"European Education: Issues and Studies.". * Iveta’s recent books include: *- Globalization on the Margins* *(2011)* *- Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative education (2010)* *- How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia* *(2008 *coedited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi), *- From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia* *(2006)*

Two seminars by Iveta Silova on Thursday 13th December 2012 - Seminar 1: Literacies of (post)socialist childhood: Alternative readings of socialist upbringing and neoliberal regimes Jan 28, 2013

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Higher Education Reform in Lithuania: Marketisation and administration versus democratisation?' – Monday, 19 November 2012 Dec 05, 2012

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This is a recording of the seminar on 'Higher Education Reform in Lithuania: Marketisation and administration versus democratisation?' delivered by two invited Professors from Kaunas University of Technology, Palmira Jucevičienė and Robertas Jucevičius. The seminar took place on Monday, 19 November 2012. The seminar was chaired by Olena Fimyar. Professor David Bridges acted as discussant.

Policy Why(s): Policy rationalities and the changing logic of educational reform in post-communist Ukraine' – Wednesday, 24 October 2012 Dec 04, 2012

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(A short description of the current audio) At this seminar Olena Fimyar discusses her work published in I. Silova (ed.) (2010) Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative education, Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 61-91. Link to the chapter: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=14793679&volume=14&chapterid=1905476&show=abstract

The HertsCam Network - David Frost Nov 28, 2012

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An introductory video about The HertsCam Network project here in the United Kingdom.

Action Research Sep 20, 2012

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Presentation by Dr Colleen McLaughlin for the Faculty of Education Centre of Excellence project