University of St Andrews

Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies

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

Conference registration

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

Class of 2011