STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA,
THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN EUROPE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1999
Saturday 13 November
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
(Nearest Tube Station: Russell Square)
PROGRAMME
0915 Registration and coffee
0945-1045 Virginija Aleksejunaite (Lithuanian Teaching Fellow, SSEES)
'Reforming the Lithuanian Education System: Textbook Policy.'
1045-1115 BREAK
1115-1230 Russian Education in Transition: Part I
Michele Schweisfurth (University of Birmingham)
'Teachers' Responses to Change in New Democracies:
Lessons from Russia and South Africa.'
Dora O'Brien (St Leonard's Mayfield School)
'A Personal Experience of the Struggle Between
Old and New Ways in a Russian School.'
1230-1345 LUNCH
1345-1500 Russian Education in Transition: Part II
Ben Eklof (University of Indiana)
'The Year in Education: Issues and Prospects.'
1500-1515 BREAK
1515-1630 Chris Knight (Nottingham Trent University)
and Simon Horsman (Coventry University)
'Workshop: Western Interventions in FSU Higher
Education - Developing Collective Experience and
Learning Lessons from Two Case Studies.'
1630-1730 Annual Business Meeting of the Study Group. All welcome,
members only may vote
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CONFERENCE FEES (to be paid on arrival)
Study Group Members FREE ADMISSION
Non-members £10
Concessionary rates £5
(full-time students; senior citizens; citizens of FSU and ECE countries)
Coffee and tea will be available at a charge. No lunch will be provided, please bring your own
Further details from the Secretary: Dr S Webber, CREES, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT Tel. 0121-414 6357; e.mail [log in to unmask];
or our internet site: http://www.mtu-net.ru/sgerisee/conf99.htm
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