EDLPS 541/SISRE 590 Russian Education and Society

Spring Qtr, 2009

• Course Syllabus
• Reading List (Not yet completely up-to-date!)
• Useful Web Sites
• Students Presenting on Individual Course Papers/Projects
• How we'll present papers and discuss at our last meeting on June 3, 2009

• GoPost for this course (UW Catalyst Tools)
• Delicious Bookmarks site for this course Note: Password is "smith107" our classroom number.
• Outline of "Formative Influences from the Soviet Period"
• Kerr S. Differentiation in Russian Education (in Jones, 1994) NB: Table 1 did not survive the transition to Word; I'll bring copies to class.
• Kerr S. Demographic Change and the Fate of Russia's Schools (in Eklof et al., 2005)
• Vygotsky, L.S. Thinking and Speaking [aka, "Thought and Speech," etc.] Ch. 4. The Genetic Roots of Thought and Speech
  Read enough to get a flavor for Vygotsky's style, how he approached psychological problems, etc.
• Craig Zumbrunnen's AN ORGANIZATIONAL-ACTIVITY GAME IN THE SOVIET UNION: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF AN AMERICAN PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER
  Please read this version in addition to (or instead of) the link included on the course syllabus. (Material from that link is also included at the end of this one.)

Readings on Higher Education for May 20:

• Higher education governance and management: A comparative review and policy options for Russian Federation (World Bank Policy Note -- 2004)
• Centers of Education in Russia: The Case for CASEs (Carnegie Corporation -- Carnegie Reporter Spring 2004)
• Strengthening Scholarship and Research in the Former Soviet Union (Carnegie Corporation -- Carnegie Review 2008) -- see esp. Mark Johnson's comments at the end.
• If you're unfamiliar with the "Bologna Process," a systemic regularization of higher education now underway throughout most of Europe, check out the Wikipedia entry on Bologna and the related sections on Russia and Russian Education

Readings on Modernization for May 27:

• Results of the E-Learning Support Project Ch. 1 Kerr DRAFT
• Results of the E-Learning Support Project Ch. 3 Kerr DRAFT NB: These are very rough drafts -- please don't cite or quote in this form!

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