STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA, THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN EUROPE (SGERISEE)
19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November
Please find a copy of the final conference programme below.
If you wish to come along to our Annual Conference you may register by sending an email to [log in to unmask]
We hope you will be able to join us.
with best regards
Clare McManus
Secretary, (SGERISEE)
STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA,
THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN EUROPE (SGERISEE)
http://www.mtu-net.ru/sgerisee/
NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November 2002
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, Rooms 336-336A, 3rd Floor, Senate House (North Block),
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
PROGRAMME
09.15 - 09.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09.45 - 09.50 Introduction to the Conference
09.50 - 10.45 Short presentations
'Galatea Trust's Work in Education in St Petersburg'
(Helena Abram, London)
'Academic Freedom in Universities in Belarus and Ukraine'
(Anna Sidorovich, Belarussian State University, Minsk)
10.45 - 11.00 BREAK
11.00 - 12.30 Parallel sessions on 'Management Education' and 'Education in Central & Eastern Europe'
11.00 - 12.30 Management Education (Room 336)
'Complexities of International Knowledge Transfer to Belarus: Management Education'
(Hanna Yakavenka, Manchester Metropolitan University)
'Management Education in Central Asia: A Case Study'
(Satya P. Chattopadhyay, University of Scranton, USA)
11.00 - 12.30 Education in Central & Eastern Europe (Room 336A)
'Is Ethics Possible in University Teaching and Learning in Poland a decade after the "Velvet Revolution"'
(Jakub Basista, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
'Fringe Education - Teaching Gender Equality: General View on the Situation of Gender Oriented Education in Eastern Europe'
(Sabina Ostrowska, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 - 15.00 Parallel sessions on 'Civic Education' and 'General Education'
Civic Education (Room 336)
'Russian student perspectives on Western university education'
(Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Civic Education Project)
'Civic Education in the Former Soviet Union'
(Ayman Salem, University College London)
13.30 - 15.00 General Education (Room 336A)
'Higher Education in Modern Uzbekistan'
(Azim Malikov, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan)
'The Social Meaning of Early Modern Russian Education: The Concepts of "Inclination" and "Influence" at the Noble Cadet
Corps (1732-1760s)'
(Igor Fedyukin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
15.00 - 15.15 BREAK
15.15 - 16.45 Plenary session: Post-Soviet Educational Reform
'Post-Soviet Education: What's being talked about in 2002'
(Ben Eklof, University of Indiana at Bloomingston, USA)
'From Kritika to "Critical Thinking"? The Practice and Politics of Social Science Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan'
(Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge University)
'Innovations in Political Science in Central Asia'
(Galina Bityukova, Central Asian Resource Centre, Kazakhstan)
16.45-17.30 Annual Business Meeting of the Study Group. All welcome. Members only may vote.
CONFERENCE FEES
(to be paid on arrival)
Study Group Members FREE ADMISSION
Non-members £10
Non-members who register in advance £8
Lunch £4.50
FOR FURTHER CONFERENCE DETAILS CONTACT EITHER:
Dr Steve Webber, Chair (SGERISEE), Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
2TT, England. Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 0121 414 6357; Fax: 0121 414 3423
OR
Dr Clare McManus, Secretary (SGERISEE), Department of Central and East European Studies, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, University
Of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RS, Scotland. Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 2849; Fax: + 44 (0) 141 330 5594
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