Kazakhstan programme open seminar series

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A relationship between science, innovation and technology and their role in the development of the USSR as a superpower Apr 07, 2016

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The status of the superpower of the USSR after WWII became a reality due to its scientific and technological achievements.

The role of using professional software programmes in higher education for future finance professionals in Kazakhstan Apr 06, 2016

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The higher education system in Kazakhstan has changed dramatically over the last years. However, transformation of higher education with implementation of international practices is a difficult process.

1) Adventures in Transparency: The Kazakhstan Data Warehouse Project. 2) Narratives of Schooling During the 1992-97 Civil War in Tajikistan. Apr 10, 2015

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1) One of the persistent laments of analysts focusing on the Kazakhstan postsecondary education system is the absence of consistent, and, in some cases, reliable data for comparing institutions, on the one hand, and, on the other, for generating a reliable summary of the postsecondary education system as a whole. 2) This seminar explores the narratives of Pamiri men and women who were in primary and secondary school during the brutal conflict that divided the country in the wake of its independence.

1) “Leave me Alone – Simply Let Me Teach”: An exploration of teacher professionalism in Kyrgyzstan. 2) Collaborative teacher learning in Kazakhstan: Is it something new or well-forgotten past? Jan 09, 2015

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1) This article examines how, in the context of the increasing deprofessionalization of the teaching professional both nationally and internationally, teachers have attempted to reshape the notion of “professionalism” in a post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, where teachers function within a top-down, bureaucratic education system. 2) This presentation looks at existing collaborative practices in Kazakhstani schools, such as the pedagogical council, methodological council and methodological subject units which were inherited from the Soviet education system. Their role in the past as well as their potential to become collaborative teacher learning platform in the future is examined.

Teacher Identity and School Autonomy in Secondary Education in Kazakhstan Sep 18, 2014

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The goal of this seminar is two-fold: to address the professional teacher identity concerns from the perspective of gender and mass communication studies and explore the concepts of autonomy and accountability in secondary education.

Towards Inclusive Education: Swimming against the tide of educational reform? Apr 25, 2014

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Special needs education and inclusion is an important but not dominant aspect of current education reform in Kazakhstan. This presentation will explore why some children continue to be marginalised from schooling and it will locate the current struggle for inclusion in the context of international attempts to create Education for All (EFA).

Exploratory Study of Teacher Identity in Changing Times: In search of frameworks and definitions Apr 25, 2014

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This presentation has two purposes: to attempt to chart the teacher identity of school teachers Kazakhstan Programme within Kazakhstan; and, to inform upon methods of educational research appropriate to a Kazakhstani context.

Taking the Babble out of Babel & Trilingual Policy into Action Mar 13, 2014

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Dr Peeter Mehisto talks about the forces, mechanisms and counterweights for building bilingual education systems and Lynne Stevenson & Helen Imam talk about the implementation of the NIS trilingual policy into the curriculum.

Language-in-education policy: Towards a research agenda in Kazakhstan by Professor Timothy Reagan, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Dec 05, 2013

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Seminar presentation by Professor Timothy Reagan, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan on language policy and education in Kazakhstan

The Role of School Principals in Education Reform in Kazakhstan by Dr David Frost, Kazakhstan Programme, Faculty of Education. School Autonomy Policies in Three Former Soviet Countries of Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Antonia Santalova, DPhil Candidate at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford Dec 05, 2013

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Seminar presentation by Dr David Frost, Kazakhstan Programme, Faculty of Education on the role of school principals in education reform in Kazakhstan. Seminar presentation by Antonia Santalova, DPhil Candidate at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford on school autonomy policies in three former Soviet countries of Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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