Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

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Preface 1.Introduction Ben Eklof Part 1. Educational Policy: Past and Present 2. Educational Change in Time of Social Revolution: The Case of Post-Communist Russia in Comparative Perspective Viacheslav Karpov and Elena Lisovskaya 3. School and Schooling under Stalin, 1931-1953 Larry E. Holmes 4. The Experimental Tradition in Russian Education Stephen T. Kerr 5. Democratic Educational Reform in Russia: Achievements and Setbacks Isak D. Froumin 6. Demographic Change and the Fate of Russia's School's: The Impact of Population Shifts on Educational Practice and Policy Stephen T. Kerr 7. The Education of Russian-Speakers in Estonia Kara D. Brown Part 2. The Teacher, the Textbook and Educational Practice 8. Teachers in Post-Soviet Russia: The Past in the Present Ben Eklof and Scott Seregny 9. Civic Education in a Changing Russia Janet G. Vaillant 10. History Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia: Coping with Antithetical Traditions Vera Kaplan 11. Re-writing the National Past: New Image of Russia in History Textbooks of the 1990s Alexander Shevyrev 12. New Trends in Historical Scholarship and the Teaching of History in Russia's School Igor' Ionov 13. Teaching Literature in the New Russian School Nadya Peterson 14. The Conduct of Lessons in the Russian School: Is Real Change on the Way? James Muckle Notes on Contributors Glossary Appendices Index