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2 - The New Educational Structures and Networks as Drivers of National Modernisation

The How of Transformation

from Part I - Foundations of Scaling Up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

By
Svetlana Ispusinova ,
Nazipa Ayubayeva ,
Olga Mozhayeva ,
Zhanar Abdildina ,
Zhanbota Kabdykarimova  and
Aidana Shilibekova
Edited by
Colleen McLaughlin ,
Liz Winter  and
Natallia Yakavets
Colleen McLaughlin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Liz Winter
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Natallia Yakavets
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter looks at how the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS) departments aimed to modernise the NIS curriculum and provide a pilot for shaping the national reform of the whole school system. The chapter also includes a critical self-reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of the reform process and learnings since. This includes reactions to the changes in civil society.

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NIS curriculumpilotsystem reform
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Mapping Educational Change in Kazakhstan , pp. 25 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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