Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence (PB)

Anglický jazyk

Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence (PB)

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2006
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 234 x 156 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781593115111

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O knihe

This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian
state of the former USSR. Utilizing case study methods, we describe and discuss how teachers, administrators and students
are attempting to survive the proclaimed "transition" to democracy and a market economy within their particular schools and
communities. We view this work primarily as a cultural study of schools and school life, not a work about the national education
system. There is in fact a growing volume of other writings on issues and problems in education in Central Asia, some of
which we have ourselves contributed to. The focus in this study, however, involves school, individual, and group lives and
dynamics in and around the four village schools we studied during 2004 and 2005.
Two of the four schools are in Chui Oblast; one in Naryn Oblast, and one in Batken Oblast. One Chui school lies
within an economically and demographically stable community by Kyrgyz standards; the other school faces more serious economic
and migratory issues. Our Naryn school is located in an isolated livestock-breeding region of Kyrgyzstan high in the
Tien Shan mountains near China. Finally, we describe community and school situations in an agricultural community in the
south that is characterized by considerable poverty-driven labor migration. Our work involved schools in the small town of
Shopokov, and the villages of Tash Dobo, At-Bashy and Ak-Tatyr. These are all actual places on the map of Kyrgyzstan - if
your map is detailed enough. In several cases, nearby smaller schools are also discussed as they relate to our primary institutions.