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Education in Central Asia

A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Opportunities

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Editors:
  1. Denise Egéa

    1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

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  • Analyses and critiques of social and political issues in education in their respective countries
  • Presents original texts on education in all five Central Asian Republics including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
  • Contains work from prominent scholars, and from outstanding emerging scholars from Central Asia

Part of the book series: Education, Equity, Economy (EEEC, volume 8)

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This book brings together internationally prominent scholars renowned for their work on post-Soviet republics, as well as outstanding emerging scholars native of Central Asia in order to discuss the state of education in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Drawing on their individual contexts and research, the authors offer analyses and critiques of some of the social, political, and economic issues in education in their respective countries, and some insights about how local actions engage with the challenges and problems, as well as with the possibilities and opportunities they face.

Since gaining their independence in 1991, the five republics of Central Asia have been undergoing some enormous political, social, linguistic, cultural, and economic changes, even as we write. This collection shows that researchers are increasingly interested in exploring the development of education in this part of the world. In thesecountries, education plays a significant role in transitioning from centrally planned to market economies and is seen as the key resource to facilitate entry into the global competitiveness sphere.

This book will be of particular interest to educators, researchers, and policy makers engaged in research or with a particular interest in curricula, and education systems and reforms, and to undergraduate and graduate students studying and researching education in Central Asia or in other post-Soviet contexts.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction: Central Asia – “The Land Beyond the River”

    • Denise Egéa
    Pages 1-20

  3. Variation in Educational Quality in Kyrgyzstan by District and Language of Instruction: An Analysis of 2017 National Scholarship Test Results

    • Duishon Shamatov, Stephen Bahry
    Pages 21-35

  4. Understanding Trilingual Education Reform in Kazakhstan: Why Is It Stalled?

    • Laura Karabassova
    Pages 37-51

  5. Gender and Education in Tajikistan in the Pre-Soviet, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Eras

    • Kara Janigan
    Pages 53-69

  6. Education in Turkmenistan Under the Second President: Genuine Reforms or Make Believe?

    • Slavomír Horák
    Pages 71-91

  7. Improving Funding for Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan

    • Nodir Hosiyatovich Jumaev, Dilshodzhon Alidzhonovich Rakhmonov
    Pages 93-107

  8. Global Forces and Local Responses in Tajikistan Higher Education: Analysis of Educational Reforms in the Context of the Bologna Process

    • Zumrad Kataeva
    Pages 109-119

  9. A Narrative Study of International Students’ Sense of Belonging in Kazakhstan: Implications for Higher Education Institutions

    • Dinara Mukhamejanova
    Pages 121-136

  10. Surviving in the Capital: How Teachers in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Turn Social Capital into Economic Capital

    • Raisa Belyavina Schwanbeck
    Pages 137-156

  11. Descendants of Altynay: Education as an Opportunity and Urban Idealisation in Present-Day Kyrgyzstan

    • Philipp Schröder
    Pages 157-170

  12. Urban Education: Challenges and Possibilities

    • Carlo Raffo, Kirstin Kerr, Alan Dyson
    Pages 171-194

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 195-202
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    Denise Egéa

About the editor

Denise Egéa is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the French Education Center for Research, Louisiana State University, USA. She holds the position of Professor, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. She is a Fellow in the Philosophy of Education Society, a Phi Kappa Phi Scholar, and an Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Her main research interests include Ethico-political issues in education; diversity and equity; languages, cultures, intercultural communication; and human, cultural, and linguistic rights. She has over 100 publications, including two main books: Derrida & Education and Levinas and Education.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education in Central Asia

  • Book Subtitle: A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Opportunities

  • Editors: Denise Egéa

  • Series Title: Education, Equity, Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50127-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50126-6Published: 15 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50129-7Published: 16 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50127-3Published: 14 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2364-835X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-8368

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 202

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Education Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Higher Education

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