Globalization on the Margins: Education and Post-Socialist Transformations in Central Asia

✍ Scribed by Iveta Silova, Sarfaroz Niyozov

Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 613
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Globalization on the Margins
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION--Education and Post-Socialist Transformations in Central Asia
PART I: COMPLICATING THE MARGINS: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION REFORMS
CHAPTER 1: Higher Education in the Former Soviet Union
CHAPTER 2: Internationalization of Higher Education in Central Asia
CHAPTER 3: Accreditation as a Means of Quality Assurance System in Higher Education in Kazakhstan
CHAPTER 4: The Development of University Research in Kazakhstan During 1991–2013
CHAPTER 5: Higher Education Admissions Regimes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
CHAPTER 6: Developing a Common Admissions System for Institutions of Higher Education
CHAPTER 7: The Changing Status of Faculty Work and Life in the Universities of Tajikistan
CHAPTER 8: Central Asian Higher Education on the Margins of the European (Dis)Integration
PART II: RE-ENGAGING THE MARGINS: GLOBALIZATION AND NEW EDUCATION INEQUITIES
CHAPTER 9: Language, Globalization, and Education in Central Asia
CHAPTER 10: Including Children With Disabilities in Tajikistan’s Education System
CHAPTER 11: Efforts to Overcome Barriers to Girls’ Secondary Schooling in Rural Tajikistan
CHAPTER 12: Transition From Higher Education to Employment in Central Asia
CHAPTER 13: Examining Education Change in Urban Kazakhstan
CHAPTER 14: Parents’ Perspectives on the Educational Market in Central Asia
PART III: REFORMING FROM THE MARGINS: THE CENTRALITY OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION
CHAPTER 15: Ten-Plus-One Ways of Coping With Teacher Shortage in Kyrgyzstan
CHAPTER 16: Teaching as a Profession in the Kyrgyz Republic
CHAPTER 17: Blaming the Context Not the Culprit
CHAPTER 18: Teachers’ Continuing Commitment in Kyrgyzstan
PART IV: REDEFINING THE MARGINS: INTERNATIONAL AID, GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, AND LOCAL RESPONSES
CHAPTER 19: Researching Internationalization and Educational Reform in Kazakhstan
CHAPTER 20: Middleman in the Global Education Marketplace
CHAPTER 21: Moving Between Soviet and Post-Soviet Educations in Tajikistan
CHAPTER 22: Pedagogy and Power in Turkmenistan
PART V: CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 23: Moving Central Asia From the Soviet Margins to the Global Center
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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