20th Annual Conference
St Andrews University
Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies
20th Annual Conference
The Class of 2011: Secondary School Education in Post-Soviet Russia
Saturday, 19th March, 2011
9am to 6pm
School 5, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews
Programme
9 am Welcome
9.15 Professor James Muckle, University of Nottingham
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009: The Implications for Russian Schools
10-10.45 Dr Olga Vinogradova, Moscow Grammar School 1567
Implementing Curricula in a Russian School
Coffee 10.45-11.15
11.15-12.00 Dr Vera Kaplan, University of Tel Aviv
History Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia: Coming Full Circle?
12.00-12.45 Dr Andrey Levitsky, Ekaterinburg
Religious Education in Secondary Schools. Educating the educators
LUNCH
14.00-14.45 Dr Charles Walker, University of Southampton
Russia's vocational education system in the context of economic and cultural dislocation
14.45-15.30 Dr David Johnson, University of Oxford
The legacy of Russian thought in the western educational system
Tea 15.30-16.00
16.00-17.00 Round Table, including Dr Tatyana Damjanovic, Dr Christopher Rathbone, Dr Olga Vinogradova
For further details please contact:
Dr Emily Finer, School of Modern Languages, email: ef50@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Jeremy Howard, School of Art History, email: jch2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Frances Nethercott, School of History, email: fn4@st-andrews.ac.uk
