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Education in Russia, the Independent States & Eastern Europe

  • 1.  Education in Russia, the Independent States & Eastern Europe

    Posted 10-24-2002 07:27
    STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA, THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN
    EUROPE (SGERISEE)

    19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November 2002

    Venue: School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London
    (see below))

    I should like to draw the above conference to your attention.

    Please find a copy of the final conference programme belowl. If you
    would like to attend please contact me at: c.mcmanus@socsci.gla.ac.uk

    with best regards

    Clare McManus
    Secretary (SGERISEE)


    STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA,
    THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN EUROPE (SGERISEE)
    http://www.mtu-net.ru/sgerisee/

    NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November 2002
    School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College
    London, Rooms 336-336A, 3rd Floor, Senate House (North Block),
    Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

    PROGRAMME

    09.15 - 09.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

    09.45 - 09.50 Introduction to the Conference

    09.50 - 10.45 Short presentations
    'Galatea Trust's Work in Education in St
    Petersburg'
    (Helena Abram, London)

    'Academic Freedom in Universities in Belarus and Ukraine'
    (Anna Sidorovich, Belarussian State University, Minsk)

    10.45 - 11.00 BREAK

    11.00 - 12.30 Parallel sessions on 'Management Education' and 'Education
    in Central & Eastern Europe'

    11.00 - 12.30 Management Education (Room 336)
    ' Complexities of International Knowledge
    Transfer to Belarus: Management Education'
    (Hanna Yakavenka, Manchester Metropolitan
    University)

    'Management Education in Central Asia: A Case
    Study'
    (Satya P. Chattopadhyay, University of
    Scranton, USA)

    11.00 - 12.30 Education in Central & Eastern Europe (Room 336A)
    'Is Ethics Possible in University Teaching and
    Learning in Poland a decade after the "Velvet Revolution"'
    (Jakub Basista, Jagiellonian University,
    Kraków, Poland)

    'Fringe Education - Teaching Gender
    Equality: General View on the Situation of Gender Oriented Education in
    Eastern Europe'
    (Sabina Ostrowska, University of Nijmegen, The
    Netherlands)

    12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH


    13.30 - 15.00 Parallel sessions on 'Civic Education' and 'General
    Education'

    Civic Education (Room 336)
    'Russian student perspectives on Western
    university education'
    (Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Civic Education Project)

    'Civic Education in the Former Soviet Union'
    (Ayman Salem, University College London)

    13.30 - 15.00 General Education (Room 336A)
    'Higher Education in Modern Uzbekistan'
    (Azim Malikov, Samarkand State University,
    Uzbekistan)

    'The Social Meaning of Early Modern Russian
    Education: The Concepts of "Inclination" and "Influence" at the Noble
    Cadet Corps
    (1732-1760s)'
    (Igor Fedyukin, University of North Carolina at
    Chapel Hill, USA)

    15.00 - 15.15 BREAK

    15.15 - 16.45 Plenary session: Post-Soviet Educational Reform
    'Post-Soviet Education: What's being talked about
    in 2002'
    (Ben Eklof, University of Indiana at Bloomingston,
    USA)

    'From Kritika to "Critical Thinking"? The Practice
    and Politics of Social Science Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan'
    (Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge University)

    'Innovations in Political Science in Central Asia'
    (Galina Bityukova, Central Asian Resource Centre,
    Kazakhstan)

    16.45-17.30 Annual Business Meeting of the Study Group. All welcome.
    Members only may vote.


    CONFERENCE FEES
    (to be paid on arrival)

    Study Group Members FREE ADMISSION
    Non-members £10
    Non-members who register in advance £8
    Lunch £4.50

    FOR FURTHER CONFERENCE DETAILS CONTACT EITHER:
    Dr Steve Webber, Chair (SGERISEE), Centre for Russian and East European
    Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
    2TT, England. Email: s.l.webber@bham.ac.uk Tel: 0121 414 6357; Fax:
    0121 414 3423
    OR
    Dr Clare McManus, Secretary (SGERISEE), Department of Central and East
    European Studies, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, University
    Of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RS, Scotland. Email:
    c.mcmanus@socsci.gla.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 2849; Fax: + 44 (0) 141
    330 5594