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  • Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence

    by Alan J. DeYoung, Kathryn M. Borman ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR. Utilizing case study methods, we describe and discuss how teachers, administrators and students are attempting to survive the proclaimed “transition” to democracy and a market economy within their particular schools and communities. We view this work ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan

    Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dilshad Ashraf, Mir Afzal Tajik, Sarfaroz Niyozov, Sultonbek Aksakolov, Spogmai Akseer, Sharifullah Baig, Alan J. DeYoung, Shama Dossa0, Hakim Elnazarov1, Carole Faucher2, Jan-e-Alam Khaki3, Hajee Parveen Roy4, Mola Dad Shafa5, Christopher Whitsel6, Zakir Hussain Zakir7 ...
    In the mountains of the Northern Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan School and schooling are both symbolic of wider ranging cultural and political battles over morals, modernity, development, gender and the rule of law. Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century is about both the normative battles over the purpose of education, as ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Lost in Transition

    Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic

    by Alan J. DeYoung ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    Being a “student” has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. “Giving their children education” (dat detyam obrazovaniye) – meaning “higher education” - has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social decline. The numbers of universities and university enrollments have increased dramatically – in fact ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

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  • Russia and the New World Disorder

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