School,Reform and Society in the New Russia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Stephen L Webber

      Pages 1-9

3. The Aims of Reform

   1. Front Matter

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   2. What Does Russia Need from Its Schools?

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      Pages 13-18

   3. The Development of the Reform Agenda

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      Pages 19-30

   4. The Programme for Change

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      Pages 31-47

4. Patterns of Change in the School System

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   2. The Challenge of Devolution

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      Pages 55-78

   3. The Culture of the Russian School and the Teaching Profession

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      Pages 79-98

   4. Signs of Change?

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      Pages 99-131

   5. Mechanisms of Cohesion and Support

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      Pages 132-147

   6. Teacher Education: Questions of Quality and Quantity

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      Pages 148-162

   7. A Progress Report for the Russian School

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      Pages 163-166

5. Russia’s School and Its Society

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      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Vulnerability of the School

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      Pages 169-193

6. Epilogue

   1. Epilogue

      • Stephen L Webber

      Pages 194-197

7. Back Matter

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The Russian school system should have an important role to play in the process of democratisation and the revival and modernisation of the economy in that country. Is it in a position to respond to this task? In this book an analysis is conducted of the attempts to reform the Russian school system in the 1990s, setting the progress made and problems encountered by the schools against the broader context of political, economical and social flux in Russia as a whole.

• economy
• organization
• profession
• school
• teacher education
• teaching profession

'It would be difficult to name other studies of either the Soviet or post-Soviet Russian education that would be equally broad in scope, and at the same time so consistently empirical and thoroughly documented...A landmark contribution to the study of postcommunist educational change.' - V. Karpov and E. Lisovskaia, University of West Michigan, for Comparative Education Review

'How well are Russia's schools doing, and how able is the teaching profession to deliver what is needed? Stephen Webber has done a remarkable job of helping us to make that judgement...It is the definitive account of this topic, and is likely to remain so for years to come.' - Professor Anthony Jones, Harvard University

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Stephen L Webber

STEPHEN WEBBER is a lecturer in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of publications in the field of Russian education.

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