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When the writing up of this chapter was in progress, one of the authors received the following announcement from her child’s school in Russia: “Dear parents! The school staff is making an unusual request of you. A city meeting for teachers has been scheduled for today from 3 to 4 pm, at which all teachers should be present. Most of us teach until 5 pm. We therefore kindly ask those of you who have the opportunity to do so to come to the school and participate in the event, impersonating teachers. You can use your laptops, but we recommend that you refrain from sleeping since the meeting will be recorded. Please let us know if you can come!”
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We would like to thank Radhika Gorur (Deakin University) and our research group colleagues Jaakko Kauko, Helena Candido and Tuomas Takala (University of Tampere) for their helpful comments on the earlier versions of this chapter.
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The research for this chapter was supported by the Academy of Finland grant 273874 for the research project “Transnational Dynamics of Quality Assurance Policies and Evaluation in Brazil, China and Russia” 2014–17.
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Gurova, G., Piattoeva, N. (2018). A Postsocialist Perspective on Audit Culture: Changing Practices and Subjectivities of School Teachers in a Russian Region. In: Normand, R., Liu, M., Carvalho, L., Oliveira, D., LeVasseur, L. (eds) Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8279-5_12
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