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By Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Vera Kaplan

This quantity involves a suite of essays dedicated to learn of the latest academic reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed schooling a best precedence of nation coverage. but the commercial decline which followed the cave in of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow to reformist aspirations, and to the present institution approach itself. the general public misplaced religion in class reform and by means of the mid-1990s a response had set in. however, large-scale adjustments were effected in finance, constitution, governance and curricula. while, there was a renewed and common appreciation for the beneficial properties of the Soviet legacy in schooling.The essays awarded right here evaluate present academic reform to reforms of the prior, examine it in a broader cultural, political and social context, and examine the shifts that experience happened on the varied degrees of education 'from political decision-making and adjustments in class management to the rewriting textbooks and lecturers' daily difficulties. The authors are either Russian educators, who've performed a number one position in implementation of the reform, and Western students, who've been learning it from its very early phases. jointly, they formulate an complex yet cohesive photograph, that is based on the advanced nature of the reform itself.Contributors: Kara Brown, (Indiana collage) * Ben Eklof (Indiana college) * Isak D. Froumin, (World financial institution, Moscow) * Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama) * Igor Ionov, (Russian background Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) * Viacheslav Karpov & Elena Lisovskaya, (Western Michigan collage) * Vera Kaplan, (Tel Aviv collage) * Stephen T. Kerr, (University of Washington) * James Muckle, (University of Nottingham) * Nadya Peterson, (Hunter university) * Scott Seregny, (Indiana University-Purdue college Indianapolis) * Alexander Shevyrev, (Moscow nation collage) * Janet G. Vaillant, (Harvard college)

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Comments on the Law on Education of the Russian Federation (Leuven, Belgium: Acco, 1993). The law appears on pp. 117–62. Webber, School, Reform and Society, pp. 51–78. As the prominent leader of the Teachers’ Union Vladimir Yakovlev lay dying of cancer in August 2003, the Minister of Education Filippov brought to his deathbed a copy of the new legislation, and Yakovlev’s spirits were enormously lifted, according to Uchitel’skaia gazeta of 12 August 2003, pp. 2, 4, 6–7, 12–13. For the new regulations see Obrazovatel’noe pravo (Supplement to Uchitel’skaia gazeta) 44 (30 October 2003).

In addition to bringing higher education degrees into conformity with European practices, Russian educators will have to make rapid progress in converting the course of study in secondary schools to a full twelve years, a component of the Modernization Programme (see below) encounter14 I N T RO D U C T I O N ing serious obstacles. Thus in actuality, joining the Bologna Process will entail some changes in the Russian system of higher education. Russian schools in the new millennium More than a decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, schools remain in an unsettled state.

Sharpe, 2003), p. 37. See Ben Eklof, ‘Introduction’, in Ben Eklof and Edward Dneprov (eds), Democracy in the Russian School: The Reform Movement in Education Since 1984 (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993). ), Comments on the Law on Education of the Russian Federation (Leuven, Belgium: Acco, 1993). The law appears on pp. 117–62. Webber, School, Reform and Society, pp. 51–78. As the prominent leader of the Teachers’ Union Vladimir Yakovlev lay dying of cancer in August 2003, the Minister of Education Filippov brought to his deathbed a copy of the new legislation, and Yakovlev’s spirits were enormously lifted, according to Uchitel’skaia gazeta of 12 August 2003, pp.

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