Lunchtime discussion on the complexity of 'ungraded' schools in rural Kazakhstan: Teachers’ understandings about how the curriculum can be best delivered to mixed-age groups

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• Marcelo Lopez Lara, PhD Student
• Monday 06 June 2016, 12:30-13:00
• GS5, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

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Presenter: Marcelo Lopez Lara, Phd Student, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has engaged in a series of education reforms since its independence that consider the quality of education and equality to the children. These reforms mandate change across the national system. Ungraded schools in rural Kazakhstan are described as those where the teacher delivers the curriculum of different grades in one class. Research internationally indicates, however, that there is often a potential challenge for rural schools within national policy reforms because international, and also local assessments, indicate marked differences in learning outcomes between urban and rural areas. Nevertheless, there are cases where students in rural areas follow a unique pedagogical model that helps them improve their academic achievement in comparison to students from traditional rural schools. By drawing upon concepts of rurality and teacher’s attitudes in a post-soviet country, the purpose of this study is to describe teachers’ understandings about how the curriculum can be best delivered to mixed-age group classes.

This talk is part of the Education Innovation and Reform Team series.

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